It's appalling when you find out that in this day and age, people do not really care about how badly maintained their apartment is and just want to charge market rental.
I have seen apartments without a proper shower area, those with rotting mirror frames, pieces of parquet which are rotting, cooker hob with the enamel corroded, curtain rails held together by cable ties and refridgerators fit for beer but not quite storage of food to feed a real family.
Appalling is actually already a very polite choice of word.
When a landlord decides to rent out his apartment in a sub-prime district at market prices, he must at least have some interest to maintain the apartment. Sure, he's not living there, but if you're charging a good sum as rental, don't you think the tenant deserves a fair shot of upkeep?
The best part is, landlords are not prepared to replace the rotting wood, preferring to allow the wood to continue rotting, and maybe if the entire frame falls off the wall, the tenant will be liable to pay under minor repairs. Mirrors are spotted from the back-side - which will surely become a source of irritation when you start using it daily. I'm not talking about a spot or two. I'm talking about a spot the size of an adult palm.
It's shameless, now landlords expect tenants to have to put up with it with no rent reduction for flaws.
Bottom line is, when we expect to receive market rate for rents, we should then expect to provide the equivalent comforts in the apartment for the tenant.
I'm still apartment hunting and believe me, this is more traumatic than studying for my exams.
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