So we've been living in a portion for 6 months now in Lahore DHA. My wife recently went to stay over back in Karachi for a bit and we asked the owners downstairs if we could use their maid for the weekend. Now the owners wife decided it was a good idea to come up with two maids to get the safai done, we sort of agreed knowing it was trickery she could have just sent the maids. Anyways she did and since I had returned from Karachi the last cleanup had been 18 days ago because we were no longer using the house. Anyways she made a bit of fuss about how unclean the cupboard glasses were, I detail my car and know what looks clean and what doesn't. Apparently this lady probably does this all day long at her home with two 24 hour dedicated maids to her rescue.
Anyways anyone who would visit would not notice anything like this place hasnt been cleaned in 18 days. But this lady had a strange obsession with making one of the maids shine the cupboards spending 20 minutes on each one of those. Anyways my wife had put up some art for my daughter with tape on one of the cupboard (glass cupboard not on wooden or formica part). She had the audacity to remove my wife's hand drawn poster and claimed look what the tape has done. Obviously the tape would leave a smudge and we all know how simple it is to get rid of it.
Next up today she messages my wife regarding the epic disappointment she faced. And apparently was sad at the overall state of affairs cleanliness. Let me tell you guys here we had a maid till 18 days ago got the house cleaned and are generally clean folks, but obviously not at the level this lady is expecting us to be which if true would mean my wife would spend 3-4 hours of her day standing on top of the maid to shine everything to a reflection, some wives with empty lives do that but mine prefers to invest that in our daughter to each their own. Plus nothing in these 6 months has been damaged which I believe would be my responsibility to cover.
I need to ask you guys I have never done this rental thing before in my life. So I know a lot of landlords are anal but really the questions we have is:
- what if we could not afford a maid
- what if my wife was working
Ultimately my question is can the tenant legally dictate such a thing? I have yet to check the agreement but I doubt it contains such a clause. Plus my brother is a lawyer but out of town so I want to be as polite as possible while giving them a written slap back on their face.
Anyways anyone who would visit would not notice anything like this place hasnt been cleaned in 18 days. But this lady had a strange obsession with making one of the maids shine the cupboards spending 20 minutes on each one of those. Anyways my wife had put up some art for my daughter with tape on one of the cupboard (glass cupboard not on wooden or formica part). She had the audacity to remove my wife's hand drawn poster and claimed look what the tape has done. Obviously the tape would leave a smudge and we all know how simple it is to get rid of it.
Next up today she messages my wife regarding the epic disappointment she faced. And apparently was sad at the overall state of affairs cleanliness. Let me tell you guys here we had a maid till 18 days ago got the house cleaned and are generally clean folks, but obviously not at the level this lady is expecting us to be which if true would mean my wife would spend 3-4 hours of her day standing on top of the maid to shine everything to a reflection, some wives with empty lives do that but mine prefers to invest that in our daughter to each their own. Plus nothing in these 6 months has been damaged which I believe would be my responsibility to cover.
I need to ask you guys I have never done this rental thing before in my life. So I know a lot of landlords are anal but really the questions we have is:
- what if we could not afford a maid
- what if my wife was working
Ultimately my question is can the tenant legally dictate such a thing? I have yet to check the agreement but I doubt it contains such a clause. Plus my brother is a lawyer but out of town so I want to be as polite as possible while giving them a written slap back on their face.