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[Illysook]

Because I have a cat and her hair gets everywhere, I have to be really good about cleaning my apartment. Things like the vents on the back of the refrigerator and the crevasse behind the washing machine, stuff like that. Each time that I do this, I find new evidence of how poorly my place was constructed and despite my previous efforts, new evidence of previous tenants. Today, I found a former tenant's dirty hairbrush behind the washing machine and I managed to tear the vinyl flooring a little bit because it doesn't go all the way back to the wall and it was difficult to slide the appliances out for cleaning behind them without having them catch on the edge.

What's the worst thing that you've found upon cleaning your apartment?

[Radius]

I don't know, but i have a cat too, and he has ripped at my wallpaper and now I have huge pieces missing all over the place---the tenant's gonna love that. I have also dropped my laptop on the vinyl flooring and now there's a big divit/hole there that the cat has been clawing up. He's so annoying and the fur is everywhere. My tenant is going to go ape@#!*
Will he penalize us for this sort of thing when we go to leave? Anyone know? I was the first person to live here, too. Brand new place lol.

[dongjak]

Don't they usually replace the flooring and wallpaper between then tenants? My dog completely destroyed the wallpaper in my last place, the landlord saw many times and when I moved out he didn't charge me for it.

[nukeday]

I think Radius means landlord..............

[matthews_world]

Um,,,get a cat scratch pad.

[jrwhite82]

[UknowsI]

My apartment had an open sewer pipe under the sink. It was one of those 15-20 cm pipes and the smell would be horrible. I fixed it with lots of duct tape, but I wonder if my land lord thinks I'm still living with that smell...

The rest of my apartment was a little dirty, but so stripped down that it wasn't possible to hide anything. It had lots of those knife tips from the knives you break off the top when they go dull, but that was just because they had recently done some repairs.

[Illysook]

My cat was declawed when she was six months old and if you don't own your home and/or your furniture, you should consider this. A cat can do a lot of damage. Some people think that it is cruel, but she is now 14 years old and quite content with her life, so I think that the pain of her surgery was quite short.

[Radius]

Yes, I meant landlord, I live in an officetel. And I really do hope they always replace the wallpaper and flooring between renters, I'd make me feel better.

[Draz]

[Illysook]

Flooring and wallpaper often need changed between tenants, but if your school owns or has a long term lease on your place, they probably won't bother. You should try to take care of it for the next teacher.

When I got my cat, I was in grad school living in a place where, like many teachers here, I didn't even own my furniture. So when scratching became an issue, I preferred to declaw my pets rather than abandon them. They didn't experience any long term trauma from it and it was a good choice for our situation. Perhaps I shouldn't have adopted an animal while living there, but she's 14 now and my continuing commitment to her means that she's come to love the land of the Ondol. It's like heated floors were invented for kitties!