By night's end I was practically overflowing with high fructose corn syrup-laden goods, and one of the inside pockets burst as I came through the door.

I have a job for working for Google Fiber and am currently saving as much as I can so I will at least be able to cover any vacancies and some of the renovations.

I can't believe they expect a deposit back with the way they left my house. the home had fresh paint, new floors downstairs (carpet was upstairs) they left the home a filthy message, my downstairs floors are way damaged, ive got holes in walls, baseboard trim hanging off, missing doors, missing shower head, she stuck a bunch of steel wool all in my stove which ive never dealt with that and dont know if to just take it out or replace it for fear of missing some fibers and having my new tenant start using the stove and it catch fire. just eyeballing the damage to the property, she's in the negative as far as the deposit goes. what do landlords normally deduct from security deposit? 

@John Hale Welcome the site, as a new member myself in Corning, I'm always looking for locals running on the forum.

If it's a cheaper paneling with a fiber board base and a laminate wood surface, it won't take much moisture for it to warp- that kind of paneling isn't even supposed to be used below grade because of it's high reactivity to moisture.

In my part of the world,land of corn and more corn,,it would be first choice with pellets as a back up.

So unless this cat was just going crazy and taking all the fibers up, I'm trying to imagine how it damaged it.Finally, since you allow pets, I highly recommend you rid of carpet in your rentals anyway.

LOL.Many NY delis are named for their owner (Katz's deli) or their location (Carnegie deli, 2nd avenue deli) and serve up plenty of franks w/kraut, potato knishes, potato salad, brisket, roast beef, pastrami, salami and corned beef (Rueben) sandwiches, matzoh ball/or chicken noodle soup!

(The temperature in the bags needs to be 100+ F, so you might want to use a heater of some kind- around 48 hours at this temperature should kill all the fleas)Buy some Diatomaceous Earth and spread it all across the carpet and make sure it gets in deep into the fibers.

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