Landlord Took All Your Money? We Can Help - By: Alfred Halfnight

With Christmas and New Years now a distant memory, and what is hopefully the worst of the winter weather behind us, I have started trying to fulfill my resolutions for 2010. Tardy I know, but in years past they and rsquo;ve gone unfulfilled full-stop, so better late than never is what I and rsquo;m telling myself. After giving up smoking (and crossing off that tricky resolution that has been lingering on my list for about the past decade), the next major task is to find a new flat: this means dealing with landlords, and for end of tenancy cleaning London is a tough place. After trying to find a moving company and scouring the net for cheap professional carpet cleaning. I and rsquo;ve got a bad case of the Mondays, and an even worse case of Bad Landlord Blues.
Shepard and rsquo;s Bush has always been good to me, but I and rsquo;m more than ready for the lifestyle change that will come moving somewhere a little more central, severing all ties with my elderly Australian landlord George in the process. Both very welcome alterations to my current existence. The thing is, back when I signed my lease in the summer of and rsquo;02 and ndash; my god, I and rsquo;ve been in the Bush too long and ndash; I was just concerned with having somewhere to live, and party. Since then I have matured a good deal, and only recently found out that in addition to my New Year and rsquo;s resolutions, there are contractual obligations that need fulfilling too.
The most tedious of these will be having my entire flat professionally cleaned, just as George and ndash; curmudgeonly old sod that he is and ndash; stipulated in my original lettings agreement way back when. If I don and rsquo;t do this, George will do it for me, and the money will come out of my bond. I and rsquo;d rather keep my and pound;650, thanks. And so in addition to Bad Landlord Blues, cursing George in my sleep, I and rsquo;ve also got tenancy cleaning doldrums, and acute rage toward all things professional carpet cleaning. Stopping smoking was easy compared to this. So currently, my New Year and rsquo;s resolutions have come to something of a standstill. I am writing this now as a personal indictment to perseverance. I must go on... I must will myself to believe that George is not the stingy bastard he seems to be at times, to believe that there is a company who will perform an end of tenancy cleaning for less than a monthly mortgage payment on my new place, and I MUST believe that I can find carpet cleaning prices that reflect the difficulty involved in that activity. You wouldn and rsquo;t pay someone a hundred and fifty quid to hoover your floors with a bit of water would you? And so this is what New Year and rsquo;s resolutions are about...

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Author Resource : Alfred Halfnight is a London-based freelance journalist with a mission to make you a better, cleaner, happier human being. Drawing attention to the peculiarities of life in the modern age is all part of the package. Check out his other articles for everything you need to know about carpet cleaning London (http://www.1stcarpetcleaning.co.uk/professional-carpet-cleaning/) companies.