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Thursday, July 10, 2008
A Plea for the Next Person
Everyone, please please please clean your apartment/home very thoroughly when you move out! If you don't then the next person is going to have to do it and is it really fair to make someone else clean up your mess? After helping David's parents manage apartments for the past 4 years I have come to realize that very few people actually really clean when they move. Sure, they vacuum and take all their stuff . . . but almost nothing else gets done. I'm talking about getting in there with a toothbrush and scrubbing every single surface and crevice. The place should look as close to new as possible. As I've cleaned apartments after people move out it has never taken me less than about 5-10 hours (and that's even on apartments that seem to look clean on the surface). Anyways, I'm just venting because I've spent the past week cleaning the condo that we are moving into because the people that just moved out didn't even dust off baseboards and window blinds and the fridge still had food in it and didn't look like it had been cleaned in years. So please, clean for the next person because someday you might be the next person.
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So true! I'm sorry you've had to spend all that time cleaning when it should have been done already.
Our house was definitely not as clean as it should have been when we moved in. My friends and I had to wipe down the entire kitchen, there were still crumbs in the drawers and cupboards. The top of the fridge was gross, the carpet looked like it hadn't been vaccuummed ever, and we found an old box of kleenex shoved in one of the bathroom drawers. Gross!
Where is the condo? When do you guys move?
funny that you wrote this. we are moving out of our apartment in a few weeks and will be on our way to texas and we just got our cleaning list. i, of course, would deep clean anyways, but as i read the list i was a little bugged thinking about how i KNOW the person before us did NOT do anything close to a deep clean when we moved in last aug. i have been the next person already...no fun. we know the people moving into our apartment, so that's a little motivation :) good luck with everything! hope you are feeling well! moving in the middle of july, while pregnant...no fun, i did it last year!
I agree! Not fair. When and where are you guys moving?
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