{"id":78,"date":"2005-08-29T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T16:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-08-29T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T16:51:50","slug":"the-deposit-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/the-deposit-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"The deposit racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was up until midnight last night cleaning the apartment, and I still have miles to go. At least this is a timed activity, over by August 31. Otherwise I could be there for another weak detailing the apartment. This has become my personal odessey to discover whether deposits are truly a racket, and whether I should ever try to get mine back again.  Yes, it&#8217;s as desperate as trying to fit an elephant through the eye of the needle. But I will try.<\/p>\n<p>Things I have left to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scrub the tile in the bathroom<\/li>\n<li>Mop the hardwood floor<\/li>\n<li>Wax the hardwood floors<\/li>\n<li>Get one of those white grout pens and touch up the yellowing grout in the bathtub<\/li>\n<li>See if I can find a cheap replacement shower head and install it (the current one leaks)<\/li>\n<li>Scrub out the clay pot stain on the bathtub<\/li>\n<li>Soak and scrub the kitchen blinds<\/li>\n<li>Dust the crown molding in the bathroom, bedroom<\/li>\n<li>Clean the inside of the radiators<\/li>\n<li>Scrub the toilet, inside and out<\/li>\n<li>Spackle the remaining holes in the closet &#8212; I need to find my putty knife for this<\/li>\n<li>Oxi-clean the carpet stains<\/li>\n<li>Pack up the ladder, rolling cart, cleaning supplies into the truck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to clean the carpet all the way. I figure they&#8217;ll probably hire someone to do that regardless, so I&#8217;ll certainly lose about $75 dollars there. That puts me at $775. <\/p>\n<p>I am unsure whether I  should remove the plant hook I hanged in the kitchen. I had to make a huge hole to get the anchor bolt in. I can spackle over this, but it might look worse than before. However, if they decide to remove it anyway, it will cost me time and materials to repair it. I removed all the other hooks in the place, because they told me to, even the nails that were there already. So, what should I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up until midnight last night cleaning the apartment, and I still have miles to go. At least this is a timed activity, over by August 31. Otherwise I could be there for another weak detailing the apartment. This has become my personal odessey to discover whether deposits are truly a racket, and whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}