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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:04 pm Post subject: Deep Cleaning your apartment |
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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? |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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dongjak
Joined: 30 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I think Radius means landlord.............. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Um,,,get a cat scratch pad. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| nukeday wrote: |
| I think Radius means landlord.............. |
That's what I thought...unless he is subletting his apartment.
I found a 2 foot black long disgusting wet sludgey hair clog in my shower drain. Started dry heaving when I snaked it out. |
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UknowsI
Joined: 16 Apr 2009
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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. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
| 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. |
My cat is 11 and still has behavioral problems likely caused by being declawed as a kitten. (Aggression, biting out of nowhere, etc.) DON'T DECLAW CATS. Sometimes they get over it, but sometimes they don't. In way too many cases it ends badly for the cat. I feel lucky he doesn't have litter box problems and is only "moody". He has trouble playing and his feet even look messed up.  |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:24 am Post subject: |
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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! |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| Illysook wrote: |
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! |
Mine I dont think likes it too much. I've noticed he lays on the outer edge of the floor where the pipes underneath must not go, because its cold along the edges.
There is nothing comparable, though, to waking up and stepping out of bed onto warm floors, ahhh. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Radius wrote: |
There is nothing comparable, though, to waking up and stepping out of bed onto warm floors, ahhh. |
Sleeping on the warm floor is more than comparable, it's the best! |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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I found what I believed to be the soul of the previous tenant when I moved into my apartment during my first year.
It was divided in many ways: The numerous discarded cigarette butts, fallen between the washer/dryer and the balcony wall and behind the bookcase left in the apartment, soju stains in the farthest corners of the fridge, ancient pieces of stove top ramyun packets beneath the stove burner, hair clusters in the drain, and the part I believe to be the biggest single piece of his spirit, the giant stain of an indeterminable source on the flip side of the mattress.
Needless to say, I exorcised the spirit within a few days of moving in. |
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madtownhustl
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| i found a syringe in a cubboard. was suppose to be living in a "brand new/redone" apartment. now i don't even open that cupboard. |
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