Today's move out...

It IS possible IF you set expectations!

Family of 8! moved out of a 4 bedroom home. Not a scratch, a stain, a dust... NOTHIN!

I took pics for the record, which will also act as the move IN photos for the next res, poked a sign in the yard, swapped lock cylinders and added a lockbox. Done! Nothing to do.

Responsible people are sooo much easier to work with.

BRAD

Now that's a good LL story.

You go Brad.

Way to go!

I was nervous about this one due to 8 people in the home, but overall a good moveout is normal.

Make this YOUR normal!

Oh, I am sending them a $100 bonus for leaving the home PERFECT.

Way to go Brad!

No carpet to find nasty stuff under...LVT floors are washed and shiny. Semi-gloss walls are scrubbed clean BY THE DEPARTING TENANT. If minor touch-ups are needed well that's wear & tear and we do that. Sticking with stock colors makes that easy and is done in the 24 hours between tenants.

Our move-out instructions tell them to remove ALL picture hanging devices but not to spackle or paint.

This was a rough old rental home but we make them clean and neat, not an A or B.

It's the PEOPLE and the MANAGEMENT METHODS, not the class of home that makes the difference.

WMH, you paint walls with semi-gloss?

I know it cleans easier... at times, but it also shows any imperfections in the walls.

I recently started painting the closets semi-gloss white.

Still do the walls in eggshell.

Everything semi-gloss. No one has EVER mentioned it being an issue I mean not even a side comment.

But I don't have nice large 3bed/2bath family homes, we have small to tiny cottages and medium townhouses. I guess we do have one 3/2 and yup, it's all semi-gloss.

Universal Grey on the walls, Bright White on the woodwork.

How do you touch up a spot with semi-gloss?

Every time I have tried I get a brighter spot and end up having to do the entire wall.

I would love to be able to just wipe the walls down. I have been contemplating using semi on everything.

Do you have problems when you do have to paint a wall with the paint not sticking well to the semi-gloss under it?

Feathering is important when you are touching up a small spot.

And being fine with imperfections in the wall anyway.

Never had a sticking problem, I think that happens if you are trying to CHANGE sheens.

Re Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus made me recall that the woman who wrote into the newspaper (Virginia) was my 1,2,3 grade teacher (small town little 2 room school, The other room had the 4th 5th and sixth students, this was in North Chatham NY.)

BTW the town was studied for how there were very active old residents ,mentally and physically, If you go to the old part of the cemetery, you see many 90+ people's age on the gravestones going back to the 1700's.

Virginia lived to be 104 -106,..I can't remember as her sister lived to either of the ages.

BTW the studies suggest that could be due to the very hard water which is high in a FORM of magnesium,..most of those old people had all of their teeth,.not common in the old days.

However this may have changed as that the water is so hard that most now have water softeners which takes out the magnesium..

I can remember Jane Randall who owned the little gift shop riding her bike in her 90s and Mrs Loman who walked about a 1/4 mile as the Librarian to the tiny library every day and very reluctant to get a ride except for the worse weather as some examples also in her 90s as some examples.