TENANT’S OBLIGATIONS AT VACANCY Sheet “A”

Your security deposit is refundable by the New Brunswick Rentalsman if all your obligations have been fulfilled at vacancy. Your rent and any other financial commitments (water, fuel, oil, etc.) as per your lease must be paid in full. Your accommodation must be clean to standards acceptable to the landlord. Physical damages from accident and abuse must be remedied to a standard acceptable by your landlord or a repair allowance will be claimed against the deposit.

CLEANING

1. Hard surface flooring must be washed. Carpets must be wet cleaned using a power cleaner method, such as steam cleaning or rotary scrub and vacuumed.
2. Horizontal surfaces must be dusted and washed. (Window sills and rails, baseboards, doors, and window casings, shelves and cabinets, light fixtures, and kitchen cupboards.
3. Appliances: Fridges must be empty, defrosted, spotless cleaned, and all shelves and accessories installed. Stoves and oven must be cleaned from baked on food and stains, and burner rings and drip trays must be similarly cleaned. Appliances need to be carefully moved from their normal position to remove accumulated debris and spills and the floor washed underneath.
4. All garbage is to be removed from the premises ready for pick-up by the Municipal garbage service.
5. Heavily stained walls, woodwork, windows must be washed.
6. Bathroom fixtures must be shiny clean (porcelain.) Medicine cabinet must be empty and clean. Special effort to clean around toilet including adjacent walls and floor behind, and the toilet seat, using disinfectant cleaners.

Kitchen Cabinets must be empty of food and packaging. Shelves to be washed and any spills, debris to be cleaned up, including cupboard fronts. Sink to be scrubbed.

REPAIRS    Sheet”B”

1. Damages which are the tenant’s responsibility may be repaired prior to vacancy and inspected for the quality of workmanship and materials. Inferior repairs may be improved by the landlord at the tenant’s expense.
2. Tenant will be responsible for missing or broken door and window hardware, light shapes, appliance parts and accessories, plumbing fixtures, window dressings (if included,) broken window/door glass and screens, and loss or damage to the heating and electrical fixtures and services.
3. Punctures in walls and ceilings will require repair and redecorating. Heavy gouges, tears, burns, stains on floor coverings which cannot be removed or repaired will result in a depreciation allowance against the deposit.

DEPOSIT RECOVERY

A Written request (fax or email) for re-reimbursement of your deposit must be sent to:

New Brunswick Rentalsman                                                 Phone # 506 856 2330
P.O Box 5001                                                             
Moncton, N.B.
E1C 8R3                                                                                      Fax # 506 856 3177

A forwarding address is to be provided to the Rentalsman and the landlord for any necessary correspondence.

Cleaning expenses are charged $20.00 per hour including equipment (other than floor cleaning rentals,) plus the cost for cleaning supplies. Equipment rental charges are billed at actual cost.

Repair expense is charged at $40.00 per hour including tools and equipment, plus materials.

A Vacancy inspection and report will be done when the accommodations are ready to be turned over to the landlord and keys are turned in. Any cleaning or repair work no done by vacancy date will not be permitted to be done at a later time. Turnovers must occur promptly and every effort made to have facilities ready for incoming tenants or prospective tenant showings.

The landlord does not accept any responsibility for property left on the premises, unless prior arrangements have been made with the landlord. Any items left after vacancy will be disposed of by the landlord and the garbage/debris removal cost claimed against the deposit.

Failure to turn in the keys will result in a re-keying or lock exchange expense charged against the deposit of $75.00 will be made.