新西兰ZT：在出租合约里要租客请专业清洁地毯是没用的
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Here's why your landlord can't force you to pay for carpet cleaning
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/113641190/heres-why-your-landlord-cant-force-you-to-pay-for-carpet-cleaning
A tenant whose landlord withheld her bond because she would not get the carpets professionally cleaned says more renters should know their rights.
Kelly Hannifin had rented a central Christchurch flat for more than two years when she shifted out at the end of April.
The landlord, Whittle Knight and Boatwood Estate Agents, wanted to take a carpet cleaning fee of $90 from her bond and withheld the entire $840 while the matter went to the Tenancy Tribunal.
She had asked that they only withhold the cleaning amount and release the remaining $750 because it was money she was relying on.
But Hannifin said she was told the landlord wanted to enforce the request for cleaning because the carpets were not as clean as when the tenancy started.
"I do not think it is reasonable to think that carpet will be the same at the end of the tenancy. There is always going to be wear and tear over the course of two-and-a-half years."
The case was not resolved until June when the tribunal sided with Hannifin and told the landlord to repay the bond plus a filing fee. "The landlord has not satisfied me that the tenant failed to leave the lounge carpet reasonably clean. She was not required to leave the carpet in a state where the premises could be immediately rented again. Landlords must expect to have to do some cleaning between tenancies," its judgement said.
Hannifin said she had not realised at first that she could not be required to pay for a professional carpet clean.
But she rang Tenancy Services and was told the only enforceable requirement was for the property to be left reasonably clean and tidy.
"I'm a clean and tidy person, every three-monthly inspection has been very good or excellent," she said. "I paid them $30,000 of my own money in rent and they wouldn't release my $750."
Bindi Norwell, chief executive of the Real Estate Institute, said carpet cleaning had to be addressed on a case-by-case basis and an automatic carpet cleaning clause in contracts was not enforceable.
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a carpet cleaning fee of $90 那么便宜吗？
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最好的方法就是出租前把地毯拿掉换成地板～
不过我知道有些房东连地上有几根头发丝都要把定金全部扣掉的
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是的，写上也可以不执行，算你乱写。
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那种乱扣租金的恶房东就要多去告一告，千万别忍！ 越忍越作恶！就算告不出什么来，也要让他们烦烦，后面有空没空过去房子里扔几块石头砸砸玻璃出口气！
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反正谁敢扣我押金我就告谁去！绝对不容忍的！每个人都去告，让那种恶人一直在麻烦中！然后论坛来曝曝光以后房子租不出去！
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告是要花钱的，很多租房的穷白连那个告的钱都付不起
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小老头来这么多年
只租过不到一年房子
那香港房东也是要洗地毯
还嫌什么洗的人用水少
签的一年
提早了两三个月走
扣了好像一周的bond
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才知道吗？
Reasonable cleanliness就行
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我一直都知道，但是很多人不知道。其实很多条款不是随便加到合同里就能执行的。
另外，我感觉，现在还有很多房东装傻让租客交水费固定的那部分。。。哈哈！！！
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如果是有宠物的房子，房客和房东在入住前都同意退房时要洗地毯，可以放在条款里吗？
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放也没有用，多事的房客还可以去告房东。。。哈哈
但是走的时候实在太脏，房东应该可以扣押金，不过还是要房客同意。