Cleaning / Professional Cleaning
- In order to evince a property is unclean at the end of a tenancy the landlord must first evince it was professionally cleaned at the outset.
- This is most effectively achieved by systematically ensuring that no one moves in prior to cleaning.
- This is not always possible with back to back tenancies, but should be done at the earliest opportunity.
- Failure to do this is failure to evince at the end of the tenancy that the tenants are responsible for any mess found.
- Ideally an independent professional cleaning invoice together with an inventory list of anything less than clean is documented.
Published: 5 November 2013 Last Updated: 17 November 2021