What do you point out to tenants at annual inspections

[Jennifer Rysdam]

I just evicted a tenant who had lived in one of my apartments for 8 years. He obviously hadn't cleaned in all those years. I'm wondering, when you do inspections what do you point out for tenants to clean/fix? Do you have them clean, wipe food off of walls, pull out appliances and clean under, scrub shower, clean carpets, etc.? I'm realizing that maybe if I had pointed these things out in the last 2 years that I have owned this building that I might not have had to do so much of it myself when he moved out.