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bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

In the middle of a move now, and the new place was D.I.R.T.Y.

It's so bad that we're going back a 2nd day to work on it some more. I swear, the Koreans living there lived like pigs, and probably haven't cleaned it since we first picked it two months ago.

Before we were married, I helped my wife move into a new apartment in Kangnam that had had 1 tenant for 1 year. We decided that the lady had never cleaned the place once (especially the bathroom) in an entire year.

When I leave a place for others to move in, I at least try to clean it somewhat.

What do you do?

Css · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Location: South of the river

When I move into a new place, the real estate dudes are usually happy to have some ajummas in to clean the place properly before i move in.

When I move out, i clean like normal but i dont go crazy.

fromtheuk · Joined: 31 Mar 2007

That's gross. I clean my bathroom every quick, it shines afterwards. Laughing

I dust and hoover once a week too. I quickly sponge the floor near where I eat after every meal.

If I ever leave this apartment, the next tenant is going to be over the moon.

Pay a cleaner to do the business. It'll save you time, effort and money. I have details of some of them through this forum.

I've never used their services, but have their contact details.

inkoreaforgood · Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Location: Inchon

Very typical her for a new apartment to be dirty as sin when you move in. My wife doesn't get it herself, she could never move out of a place without giving it a decent cleaning.

Cracker006 · Joined: 11 Feb 2008

every place I've moved in to required a good 3-5 hours of scrubbing before I'd bring in anything I owned... oh yea... and about 10 trash bags.

I don't usually mop or scrub things, but I always sweep and remove everything.

D.D. · Joined: 29 May 2008

In Australia they use the condition of the place as an excuse to keep your deposit so I clean like a bugger.

Here I just get the big stuff out and sweep as they do not expect you to spit shine the place.

Quack Addict · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Location: Seoul

I'm currently moving out and cleaning up. I know the person moving in after me so that makes a difference. But normally, I clean it up to make it look respectable but nothing more.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

I give apartments a good cleaning when I leave and have always been lucky that new apartments have also been in good condition.

Still, when I move in somewhere, I sanitize it: lightswitches, doorknobs, furniture, and the entire kitchen and bathroom. You could perform surgery in an apartment the day after I move into it. Either that or use it as the set for a serial killer's apartment in a movie. Cool

poet13 · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:14 am Post subject:

My last apartment took maybe 15 cans of stuff and 20 hours of real work....for an efficiency.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I just moved a couple weeks ago, and we didn't clean it, with the blessing of the people moving in.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I just moved and it was fairly clean.. but the moving company had an ajumma who cleaned anyway.

My own ajumma will start, I hope, on Monday.

SHANE02 · Joined: 04 Jun 2003

Every place i have moved into was not claened by the previos rennants at all. Even the mover's boot prints remained. When in Rome.......so no..I leave it as is.

D-Man · Joined: 17 Jun 2008

Yes,it's only respectful to clean up a place a when leaving.

Christ! 5 years ago,the wife and I rented a place in Prague for the year.When we moved in,the bastards that were there before us,left it like a pigsty.There were 3 students living there.Bloody lazy oafs.Two of them were chicks.

Tons of cigarette ends under the sofa.Copious amounts of dust.The bloody fridge was filled with disgusting and aged jars of pickled mushrooms and other"treats".Beer bottles and assorted alcohol containers piled high.

I think we may even have come across the plastic lids of hypodermic needles!

Funky underwear left in the wardrobe drawers.I could go on and on.

We spent about two full days cleaning and checking everything over.Spent about 100 quid on cleaning supplies and disinfectants.Pretty much had to hose the place down and leave it for a day or two to air out.

We complained to the owner and we got a bit of a discount:shock:

chickenpie · Joined: 24 Dec 2008

Cleaning the apartment is the responsibility of the landlord.

Every time I've moved into an apartment it has been spotless, because that is in the contract.

Unless you are stupid, Korean apartments are cleaned before you move in. Wink

chickenpie · Joined: 24 Dec 2008