I'm in.....
Well, here I am, for better or worse, in my new home.
I was told that the maintenance schedule included repairs, cleaning and painting.
Repairs? Well the broken taps over the laundry tub were replaced. The rusty hotplate is still there.
Paint? The replacement door has been painted and all other doors and window frames too.
We opened the windows immediately to let the paint smell out.
Cleaning? Well!! If this is what they call cleaning, I could teach them a thing or two. I signed the paperwork to say I was accepting an acceptably clean flat, while quietly resolving to scrub everything as soon as I was fully unpacked and settled.
There are cobwebs.
There is dust.
The top-of-wardrobe cupboard had a few seeds of the bird food variety and also dried bird droppings. UGH!
Apparently that's where the previous tenant kept his bird cages.
He also had a pet turtle. With that and the birds, that explains why the back porch is fully encosed ...