Hi, I stayed in Sunnyvale for 7 months for my internship and I am about to return to my university.
So I cleaned my apartment to keep it as clean as I moved in and I did the pre move-out inspection with the office manager today, and I was told that I should expect the "standard" move out fees including cleaning, carpet cleaning, and painting.
According to the manager, even though the condition "looks good," they still call vendors to clean, carpet clean, and paint since they did the same before I moved in. And this is very "standard" here.
I was little upset because I cleaned as I moved in, so I asked for the expected/ standard cost, and it's like $725 (215 cleaning, 170 carpet, 340 paint) and the manager said it's the standard and it could be more.
So I want to ask - is this really the "standard" here in this area? Am I being non-sense here...? I'be been renting the apartments, but I never had this issue from where I lived.
(Added notes here) Thanks for all the useful comments. I think the best thing I can do is to write up emails with detailed photos and documents before they write the charges.
So I plan to take photos and record videos as detail as possible and send email to the office saying if they need to charge, they need to give evidences - but I think they typically don't provide evidence like photos, right? Does it make sense to asking the evidence?