We contacted the carpet cleaner to return to the house on the morning of 4 Sept 2020 to re-treat and re-deodorize the house alongside the owner’s sister.  10.  

I feel like landlords aren't being treated fairly, and its great to see this take place. 

I also looked at the property as an investment but being young and naive, treated it like falling stock and dumped it to an investor.

It’s these loud gatherings that sometimes gives STR’s a bad name as people need to remember these are mostly homes in residential neighborhoods and should be treated as such IMHO.

I don't like the way most landlords treat their tenants, but I have a very special place I would like to send landlords who cheat their tenants out of their deposits.You are 100% right about winning if you can prove your landlord did not give you a pre-inspection notice two weeks prior to your moving out.

Based on my interpretation of how California treats a carpet of that age, I think he's going to have a challenge demonstrating it had any useful life left because he can't document the date he installed it, or even the type of carpet it was.

I would default to treating it as a loan and paying a fixed rate of interest. 

It's not like you are discriminating or treating him differently.

Treat your contribution as a loan and not equity. 

Treating a job you do not like very much as a means to an end often makes it more bearable.