General Cleanliness in Lease

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Hi everyone,

I currently am house hacking, however, I am moving out of town for the summer and am thinking about buying another property on my way back in.  Since I am house hacking,  it is very easy for me to "micromanage" the tenants, e.g. doing dishes, taking out trash, not leaving the place a mess.  Although, I am wondering if anyone has ever made a list of daily, weekly, and annual tasks that should / must be done by tenants in order to keep reasonable cleanliness standards.  I talked to some friends about this and they said "I'd be pissed if I had rules at a place I was paying rent."

If you guys do this, I was wondering how I should build it into the lease and or put signs up throughout the house.

Thanks!

Joe

[Scott P.]

I think "tenant education" is becoming more common - especially if you're renting to college students.

Going forward, I'm providing more education about what does and does not go into a garbage disposal (and a toilet for that matter).  I'll be doing this in a friendly and educational way - I hope.

I think a packet of move in information with suggested checklists like this would work for my tenants but I don't think i could enforce rules on them unless it was a house hacking roommate type of situation.