Landlord Cleaning Fee

[Mia Thorn]

So I had an ant problem in my unit while livening there and the landlord sprayed a chemical on the countertops to combat them after the store bought stuff I was using wasn’t cutting it. He told me to let it dry and wipe it up when dried. When it dried it left a film on the countertop and though I wiped the countertops multiple times before move out and during move out he still charged me a $50 cleaning fee because he had to get someone to scrape up, literally with a plastic paint scraper, the film off the counter. Now I didn’t spray that stuff, he did and I’m wondering was it justified for him taking some of my security deposit to clean that.