Its written in the lease upon vacating that they hire one company specified and approved by us. 98% of the tenants dont have issue. Every now and then someone does and insists on using their own methods of cleaning the carpet. I really would rather they just forget about it and the cleaning gets deducted after vacating, cleaning company supervised by me. Besides the obvious that it is difficult to clean unless completely vacated. Finally had to tell exiting tenant, that unknown company X was not authorized to enter my property and do any work not authorized by me. I called unknown company and warned them they did not have my written consent to perform any work on my property. The single fly by night sole owner argued with me profusely. I informed him if he steps one foot on property, the police would be called.

Carpet cleaning is permitted as it is the removal of dirt, placed by tenant. Thinking now of changing lease terms that "owner will have carpets cleaned and costs deducted from S. deposit after keys returned". Do you guys have this lease term and how do you deal with carpet cleaning?

bet,

ANOTHER reason to go carpet-free. Carpet os a HUGE management and argument problem.

Back when I had carpet I had to get away from “We used my Auntie’s Green Machine”. Carpets looked untouched. For court I had my guy clean the carpets but leave a square untouched, very dirty, for a photo.

My lease is clear: Res is responsible to have carpets professionally cleaned at exit by Management’s designated cleaner only. Cleaning by any other company or person is not acceptable. Do not risk damaging several thousand dollars of carpet with rental shampoo equipment and chemicals and still have to pay for the designated cleaner company.

Res may contact the designated cleaner and prepay to take advantage of any promotional offers. If so, provide the receipt to Management.

Get rid of carpet. Life’s too short to be bogged down with such issues.

We tell tenants that they can not have them done as we will contact our people that we have a contract with and it will come out of their deposit.

If they balk, I tell them that our insurance company makes us have certain forms from people working at our property and if they do not have those forms (small guys dont) then they are not authorized.

When I had apartments we converted the 1st floor units to tile as the carpet wore out. It solved so many issues. Upstairs we couldn't use tile due to noise transfer.

I never had much success with requiring tenants to plan and pay for carpet cleaning. I can't recall any time that I did not have to go back and redo it myself. Luckily at the peak of my rental adventure I only had 8 upstairs units to deal with. And with the 4 plex it was only two units.

When I switched to senior living we didn't really have any carpet issues. We started charging a $100 carpet cleaning fee on move-in which covered a full shampooing and general cleaning. It wasn't realistic to expect 75 year old folks to deal with stuff like that.

Depending on your state you may not be able to charge a non-refundable fee. If you take it out of the deposit you are limiting yourself on other damage.

We did an annual carpet cleaning as part of their rental. We are talking 1-2 bdrms so it was like an hour's work. We bought a good, heated carpet cleaner and did it ourselves. If the carpet was showing wear we'd run the cleaner down the traffic areas during our 6 month maintenance. 

We only have a few places left that have carpet in the bedroom only.

I have in my lease

"Carpets are professional cleaned. The Management will hire and deduct the billed amount from the deposit. "

I have the same in my move out letter.