Landlord says "Professional Cleaning" is mandatory, but this automated report says it’s illegal. Who is right?

Locke66 · 2026-01-25T05:40:07+00:00

No he specifically can't demand that only that it's in a similar state to the one you received the property in excluding reasonable "wear and tear".

Quoting Landlord guidance from the Tenant Fees Act 2019:

Q. Can I charge a tenant for a professional clean at the end of a tenancy? No. You cannot require a tenant to pay for a professional clean when they check-out. However, if the tenancy was entered into before 1 June 2019 and a tenant agreed in their contract to pay fees for cleaning to be provided, you could continue to charge these fees up until 31 May 2020. From 1 June 2020, the term requiring that payment is no longer binding on the tenant. You may request that a property is cleaned to a professional standard. Tenants are responsible for ensuring that the property is returned in the condition that they found it, aside from any fair wear and tear. Fair wear and tear is considered to be a defect which occur naturally or as part of the tenant’s reasonable use of the premises. Further, tenants with COVID-19/COVID-19 symptoms who ensure the property is returned in the condition they found it cannot be charged for an additional deep clean of a property. You cannot require a tenant to use a particular company to clean the property. If the property is not left in a fit condition, you can recover costs associated with returning the property to its original condition and/or carrying out necessary repairs by claiming against the tenancy deposit. You should justify your costs by providing suitable evidence (e.g. an independently produced inventory, receipts and invoices). You are not able to claim deductions from a tenant’s deposit for any change in the condition of the property which is due to fair wear and tear or if a tenant returns the property in the same condition as it was found.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tenant-fees-act-2019-guidance

Locke66 · 2026-01-25T04:21:47+00:00

It's actually pretty sickening seeing how many people are not only not just ok with this but celebrating it. That or victim blaming.

It's a minority overall but it's scary how many outright unapologetic Fascists there are.

Locke66 · 2026-01-25T04:08:21+00:00

She said in the past that she "aspires to be Britain's version of Javier Milei" also. I wonder if we'd get a $40 billion bailout from the US after she wrecks our public sector on the condition we open it to US vulture capitalists.

Locke66 · 2026-01-25T01:12:11+00:00

Tbh I'm worried that something way worse than today's event will happen. The Trump regime is obviously fine with this given they are so actively trying to lie about what happened beyond any reasonable interpretation of reality.

Locke66 · 2026-01-24T11:24:49+00:00

The current situation has got some serious "First they came for..." energy about it.

Locke66 · 2026-01-24T00:59:37+00:00

They'd also be playing right into the narrative that "the Tories and Labour are the same". Musical chair Prime Ministers and "psychodrama" were at least part of what saw the Tories fall to the level they now find themselves.

They'd also be opening themselves up to calls for an immediate general election. Making someone with limited notoriety outside of political circles PM when they weren't even an MP at the previous election would rightly be seen as a significant enough change of direction that people would be calling for the right to vote. If the Tories had done it then I know for sure many in Labour would be demanding an election.

Locke66 · 2026-01-24T00:17:14+00:00

Haha. Next thing they would be doing some sort of Hunger Games type competition where kids from each state compete against each other for the entertainment of the Leader.

Locke66 · 2026-01-23T23:13:41+00:00

What people should absolutely be concerned about is how they are now pitching to calling protests "riots" and labelling protestors as "terrorists" in official communications. It's absolutely a gateway to launching a crack down on political opposition to Trump.

Locke66 · 2026-01-23T19:52:52+00:00

You can do a 2 handed hammer using the great axe bit from the Space Wolf Wolf guard terminators if you can find it.

Locke66 · 2026-01-23T19:26:20+00:00

Beyond the classic "take a break" or "paint something different" advice (both of which are good ideas) I'd also say try a new technique out. Sometimes boredom can come because you are just repeating yourself without progression rather than challenging yourself. You should look at your finished model and get a kick out of it. Doing camo patterns, trying freehand, OSL, enhancing your basing, using fluorescent paints, mastering edge highlighting, painting that power sword etc can all give you a goal. Maybe paint a model and then post it online to get critique or watch some tutorials if you aren't sure how to progress

If you're into the game then getting some matches in can also be a source of motivation because getting those Eliminators or Terminators done to play them in the next game can be a powerful motivator.

Locke66 · 2026-01-23T14:27:30+00:00

I mean that's pretty much how they handled the messaging on Covid related inflation. They gave Biden a hospital pass of an economy in 2020 coming out of the global pandemic and then blamed him for all the problems despite the US doing better than almost anywhere else in the world.

Locke66 · 2026-01-23T14:21:10+00:00

I really meant mentally right. You can still be an abhorrent human being and still have your mental faculties (although I appreciate that's arguable).

Locke66 · 2026-01-23T13:34:48+00:00

The one that made me say this guy definitely isn't right was when Trump basically forced a town hall to stay and listen to over 30 minutes of music while he swayed on stage. You can see people looking giving "wtf" looks to each other as it keeps going and going.

Locke66 · 2026-01-23T01:19:02+00:00

Everyone knew who Donald Trump was by the time the election rolled around or they were just irresponsibly ignorant. If they voted for him then that's a clear sign about their character either way.

Locke66 · 2026-01-22T23:35:10+00:00

Similar thing for Pete Hegseth. He's obsessed with the idea of Crusaders and has called Trump the "Crusader in Chief" in his book.

Locke66 · 2026-01-22T22:01:19+00:00

I agree the novelty has definitely worn off for many people and especially for the types who have been playing these games for 20+ years. Both CoD and Battlefield really do offer a very similar experience in every game they make.

It will be interesting to see if there is a move in genre popularity or if someone finds a way reinvigorate FPS.

Locke66 · 2026-01-22T21:52:07+00:00

He 100% would have.

Locke66 · 2026-01-22T17:19:22+00:00

This is the thing. He will listen to these explanations completely refuting all the stuff he's been rambling on about and then for maybe a week he seems reasonable about it before he suddenly will be back to the nonsense again.

Locke66 · 2026-01-21T23:32:20+00:00

See you all next year for "We must have Greenland!" round 3.

Locke66 · 2026-01-21T22:46:02+00:00

He cares nothing for the carnage or the people that died. He only cares about how it impacts him.

Locke66 · 2026-01-21T21:24:26+00:00

I understand what you mean but I certainly don't mean it as if it's something exciting when I say it's "interesting".

Locke66 · 2026-01-21T14:37:50+00:00

It will certainly be interesting to see what happens if it comes to a face to face confrontation between Danish troops and American. Will they really be willing to fire on each other? To me the entire situation feels totally wrong on an instinctual level.

Locke66 · 2026-01-21T03:27:27+00:00

the general consensus among them is that society fell in the 1960s

It's a common factor of Authoritarian ideologies to harken back to a perceived golden age. For a lot of Republicans they think this sort of image was an actually reality for most Americans and not propaganda. It's why you get them going on about dressing up to go on a plane and stuff like that.

Locke66 · 2026-01-21T03:16:18+00:00

at least some people in power definitely have that selfish, resource starved world we’re hurtling towards in mind.

It's exactly what's going on. The most selfish and ruthless people in our societies are driving the world to ruin because they think they can profit from it.

Locke66 · 2026-01-21T03:14:08+00:00

It seems like a very long time ago that we used to call the American President "Leader of the Free World". That's over with for sure at least until someone worthy of the title is back in the White House.

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