Move In Inspection: Fill & Download for Free

You’ll laugh... I wondered why the owners allowed their young daughter to sit on the kitchen counter - I discovered why when we moved in… Someone had placed a hot dish on the delicate surface and left a horrible scorch mark, perfectly covered by the small child’s bottom! The lady is a solicitor, as well. So just as a piece of advice, if you’re viewing a property, don’t forget to move any suspiciously placed small children!

The first apartment my ex husband and rented was a 2 story 2 bedroom 1 1/2 bath with a very small 10 x 8 completely dirt back yard. It was hard pan soil and nothing grew there, not even weeds. We had 2 dogs. We lived there about a year and a half and decided to move to a house with a bigger yard for the dogs. When we moved in, the master bedroom had an iron burn on the carpet from the previous tenants, but it was noted in the move in inspection and was easily covered with a nightstand so we didn’t insist it be fixed.We move out and I’m expecting out $500 deposit because we completely did a move out deep clean and there was no damage from the time we lived there. So about two weeks after we move out I received an envelope from the property management company and was like great got the deposit back. Only instead of a check for the deposit, it was a bill for $1800 in damages!They claimed that we left the house trashed, with dog crap in the closets, tons of trash in the backyard that they had to pay $200 to get hauled off, and they wanted us to replace the entire carpet in the apartment because of the iron burn! I called them right away and was like oh hello no this is so fake! The lady argued with me that she went and saw it for herself and that I was wrong. I told her the carpet burn was there when we moved in and it should be on the walkthrough inspection. She said the property manager who originally rented to us had left the company and took all the move in sheets with her so I had to replace it. It was my first apartment rental and I was a terrible record keeper back then. I didn’t keep our copy because I had no idea how important it was. But at any rate, I told her we were not paying these crazy charges and I never did. They didn’t try to sue me because they knew they were lying. Now I know to keep those move in inspection forms and always take pictures of each room and the yard with a newspaper to show the date if possible!Well, I own my house now so I guess that won’t be an issue anymore.

We once had a burglar who would cut a little corner of a plate glass window with a glass cutter pop it out set off the alarm and walk away and hide close by. After the cops would respond and inspect the building, seeing that it was secure they would clear the call. The burglar would then return and break in and burglarize the store, because the alarm would not go off again. This was in the early 90’s He was doing this all over Manhattan. I put two uniforms on patrol in an unmarked car and we got hit!! I realized who it was and told the unmarked to stay nearby and observe… sure enough he came back We waited till he was inside and then moved in and locked him up. We closed out 68 burglaries in all off Manhattan and put him out of business he pled guilty and was sentenced to 10–15 yrs he was a predicate felon