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    Dalano Helper Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Jan 10, 2013, 09:48 PM
    Can you charge another tenant for cleaning up their mess
    I moved into a house that was a mess and I knew it but I rented the room anyway... I have helped to improve the house that was worst before I moved in... and we have continued to increase the House conditions together. But the problem is outside of the Landlord repair issues! It's the day to day up keep that's become too overwhelming... Turns out my roommates are messy and refuse to clean up behind themselves. In some way I clean up after my roommates everyday. I've requested we split the house up in sections and rotate them so that we can stay up on the Clean up & Improvement of the place, but no one cares for cleaning like I do so I clean up after everyone on a constant basses. One roommate brought two dogs to the house as a gift to another roommate who already had a cat. I'm cleaning after those pets everyday. She/they leave poop in the back yard, on the deck and never fully sanitize the messes left in the house. If I want it really clean I have to do it myself or the house smells bad. We have a ton of piss stains on the carpet & I see poop in places no one cares to pick up after weeks of me noticing it. I grow tired of the appreciation and I need to know is there some way I can charge or deduct money from my share of rent because I can't live in a mess but I don't want to continue to clean up for nothing.
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    Jan 11, 2013, 04:13 AM
    Not unless it was in the lease agreement when you signed it.
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    Jan 11, 2013, 04:24 AM
    Time to start looking for a new place. You certainly can't charge the landlord for this by deducting anything (you can try giving your roomies a bill, but good luck with that).

    I would move out anyway, because I doubt that the landlord is going to give any security deposits back when he sees the pet damage, so get yours from the person you find to replace you.
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    Jan 11, 2013, 05:02 AM
    Nope, and what did you really expect when you say it the way it was.

    That was how they lived and you should have realized it

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