Today I moved from my old place. I noticed these under the bed. I can’t remember if these were there when I moved. Is this a potential reason for my landlord to take my deposit?
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Posted by CamelSisu
Today I moved from my old place. I noticed these under the bed. I can’t remember if these were there when I moved. Is this a potential reason for my landlord to take my deposit?
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Posted by CamelSisu
15 Comments
Yes, it can be.
You don’t have felt pads under your bed feet?
If you made those, definitely taken from deposit. That looks horrendous
Always check the apartment when you move in and take pictures. Yes, the landlord can use the deposit to pay for the floor refining.
I don’t quite see how a bed would produce this kind of pattern but if it matches with where the feet were then you might be in a pickle
Normal wear and tear is fine and cannot be charged to the tenant, but those are a bit much for normal wear and tear. If you don’t have evidence they were there when you moved in, they can take the fixing costs out of the deposit, up to reasonable costs. Unfortunately, for a floor it will be sanding the whole room if it’s wood and replacing the floor in that room if it’s a laminate, so it will be fairly expensive.
You can go buy pens from various general stores like Motonet, Puuilo etc that you can fix these scrapes. IT costs like 3 euros
The question I would make is how would you have not seen it when you move in? No idea what could have caused it but I would have seen it when I move in.
I take detail pictures of everything I find to have evidences. Never had a problem but still, better to have evidences not only for the landlord but for yourself as well.
Yikes.
Get some of those scratch repair wax pens and get to work 😀
Did you use angle grinder?Â
I have checked my bed legs and they have pads. Also in that position actually there is no legs at all that would cause this. I hope landlord believes me. Thank you all for th tips and advices.
Probably not your entire deposit but that floor is fucked, that doesn’t look like normal wear. If it’s real wood it can be sanded but it’s time consuming and costs money. If it’s a laminate floor, it probably needs to be replaced. It’s at least a few hundred Euro for the landlord to fix, maybe more. They most likely have to hire a guy to fix it. Lesson of the day: when you move to a new place that you’re renting, the first thing you do is do an inspection, take photos of everything that looks weird, wrong or broken, and send them to the landlord. Then it’s not your problem anymore.
bah, normal signs of living doesnt count.
if those would be made with chainsaw, it would be different story.
How long dis you live?
Shitty life tip: buy some putty/filler, that thing what is used to fix walls normally and carefully fill up the scratches and then paint the filler to match the wood grains.
Pro life tip: you need to pay for that IF the landlord demands it…