Tuesday, April 10, 2012

My New Favorite Excuse of All Time

My relocation agent just suggested that perhaps our rental hone was not professionally cleaned prior to the commencement of the lease, as per the rental agreement, because “sometimes people like to clean their new homes themselves.”  Pardon?  Do I look dumb/stupid/gullible/like Anonymous Colleague?  Yes please, can I please pay for the pleasure of cleaning up someone else’s multi-year lived in, recently vacated , dirty home myself?  Maybe if I’m really lucky, I can also cook, clean and iron for the prior tenant too, in their new home?

And while we’re at it, was Amelia Bedelia hired to do the inventory?  Somehow I think that when items like ‘used tissue, closet shelf’ make the list, one would recognize that the house has not been cleaned, as per the lease conditions.  Please, will someone remind me to replace the ‘used tissue, closet shelf,’ ‘three candles, half burned,’ ‘broken vase, kitchen sink,’ and ‘dirty toilet brush, guest bath’ before I move out so that the rental agency doesn’t charge me for missing items?  Thanks!

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