Rental Inspections..time to spring clean

Yes, I knew it was coming. Every six months I have to have a rental inspection ( as you have figured I don't own my own home).

But am I ready for it???? No, absolutely not. Now there are no holes in the wall, or any broken windows, its just the fact that you realise...Oh my god I really do need to clean the oven again.

So begins the task of washing down finger prints off walls and around light switches, which you knew were there all along, but thought, "I'll do that later", and later does not come until now.

Now of course I have the best landlords in the world, and they are not going to evict me because I have dirty fingerprints on the wall, but why do we put off the things we know are going to take us longer next time.

I even make sure the garage is tidy, and they don't even check in there. But knowing my luck, this is the time they will.

I think I become so fanatical about inspections, is because I used to live with a flatmate who worked in real estate, property management. She would make me so fearful of how things had to be clean, that I'm even washing down tops of the cupboards, and getting rid of my allowed pet out of the backyard, in case they trip over it, or the dog decides to do his business before they come to inspect and then the grass is not clean enough.

But seriously, once said house is cleaned, you think yo yourself, this is how the place should look all the time. Not with the ironing tipped over lounge waited to be seen to, or that football that's been in the kitchen, not in child's room like it should be, is still there.

Is it because we become to complacent, or to busy at work, to tired, running the children around or..


Nah I'll just do it later!!!!!!