email from apartment owner: (my emotional response in red) _ please keep in mind this is a 40m2 STUDIO apartment. so except for the absurdness of their sudden request/order!
Here is the detail of the expenses:
Cleaning lady ARS 300 (what is a standard day rate?)
Cleaning products ARS 200 (can you please supply a list and prices of the cleaning products that you had too buy... what could possibly cost this much)
Stool repair ARS 100 (we did try fix it, but will be more than happy to pay for the repair of the chair)
Laundry ARS 200 (where did you do the laundry? all the places I have used have been $17 per load. SO where could you possibly have paid ARS 200 for stuff that had been washed the day before?)
Total: ARS 800
On the same day you left a new tenant offered to rent the apartment for 15 days, starting January 19. Since the apartment was in terrible condition, he could not check-in. The cleaning lady was only available the next day, and it took her 3 working days (Jan 19, 20 and 23) to leave the apartment in decent condition for the new tenant.
So this meant five days of lost rent for us. If the apartment had been left in the same condition and repair as when delivered, we wouldn´t have lost those days, which meant ARS 690.
So we rounded up the amount (cleaning/repair expenses + lost rent) to USD 300.
Ok, so it is a complicates situation, whereby we have moved out of our apartment temporarily while visiting back home for a month. BUt with the understanding that we get the apartment back on our return for a few more months. We had too leave a security deposit to assure that we would be coming back too.
As is we are still on the original contract and they still have our deposit for the apartment... we are VERY nervous.
Our temp rent apartment was left in a GOOD condition. all the bedding was freshly washed and only the last towel we had used that morning was hanging in the bathroom.
ADVICE PLEASE?????????
Here is the detail of the expenses:
Cleaning lady ARS 300 (what is a standard day rate?)
Cleaning products ARS 200 (can you please supply a list and prices of the cleaning products that you had too buy... what could possibly cost this much)
Stool repair ARS 100 (we did try fix it, but will be more than happy to pay for the repair of the chair)
Laundry ARS 200 (where did you do the laundry? all the places I have used have been $17 per load. SO where could you possibly have paid ARS 200 for stuff that had been washed the day before?)
Total: ARS 800
On the same day you left a new tenant offered to rent the apartment for 15 days, starting January 19. Since the apartment was in terrible condition, he could not check-in. The cleaning lady was only available the next day, and it took her 3 working days (Jan 19, 20 and 23) to leave the apartment in decent condition for the new tenant.
So this meant five days of lost rent for us. If the apartment had been left in the same condition and repair as when delivered, we wouldn´t have lost those days, which meant ARS 690.
So we rounded up the amount (cleaning/repair expenses + lost rent) to USD 300.
Ok, so it is a complicates situation, whereby we have moved out of our apartment temporarily while visiting back home for a month. BUt with the understanding that we get the apartment back on our return for a few more months. We had too leave a security deposit to assure that we would be coming back too.
As is we are still on the original contract and they still have our deposit for the apartment... we are VERY nervous.
Our temp rent apartment was left in a GOOD condition. all the bedding was freshly washed and only the last towel we had used that morning was hanging in the bathroom.
ADVICE PLEASE?????????