Hmmm...did an inspection at one of my rentals today...

[Jack B.]

I'm not sure what to think. I went to visit due to an inspection I scheduled, and was then notified that the chimney was leaking into the garage a little bit. She claimed that she was going to contact me about it THAT day (yeah right, but you only mentioned it after I email you for an inspection a couple of days).

So I get there. It looked and smelled like one of her two cats (allowed on lease, pet fee of $300 was paid) had pissed in a couple areas; there was a smell of cat piss in a couple areas, but not permeating the house necessarily. The kitchen looked overall fine. Stove rings were a bit dirty and rusted, not like that before. The bathrooms, well the girls bathrooms were decent I guess, but a bit messy. Not really the worry some part of my visit. I will say the wood laminate flooring looks like a freaking CHAMP! That stuff looks the same as the day I had moved in there. 

That dove tails into my next point. Besides the cat piss stain that was recent (within an hour) by the front door, on the carpet, the girls bedrooms, one of them anyways, had several stains on the carpet. NONE of these stains were there before. The stains LOOK like they MIGHT come out with carpet cleaning. I'm not sure what they are. 

Besides the cat piss and 3-6 stains on the carpet throughout the carpeted areas of the house, the house is just cluttered. It's not a small place, but man, it's cluttered and just disorganized. 

I'm not sure how to take it up with the tenant. We were considering moving back there, and actually planning on it, so I put them on a month-to-month lease when they renewed. I could just give them the required 20 days notice or more, when I want to move back in, but should I address the stains and such with her now, or just ding her deposit when the time comes? I have a signed inventory sheet from when they moved in, AND pictures of the place spotless and clean when they received it. I also took pictures of the condition of the house while I was there. What would you do?