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user-inactivated · 3862 days ago · link · · parent · post: What have you learned from apartment hunting?
Take Video. Walk through each room, narrate and document EVERYTHING. Talk about the outlets, smells, spots on the carpet, stains in the kitchen. Open cabinets, open the stove, turn on fans, flush the toilets. If the video ends up being 40 minutes, so be it. Now, the important part. UPLOAD IT TO A VIDEO HOSTING SITE THE DAY BEFORE YOU MOVE IN. Make it private. If anything comes up, you have a time/date stamp, and video is harder to mess with. This has saved a few of my friends' security deposits when they had to break a lease. As for sharing with the landlord, eh. Definitely mark up concerns on the lease, get everything in writing etc. But I don't think you should share the video, keep that in case things get testy.