Why do people boast about their cleanliness?

As Shania Twain sang:
“It don’t impress me none!” 🎵 🎶
😁

It's a competitive world these day, for all ages.

You sound like a nice neighbour I suppose in two years time they will find out

Oh I wouldn't be able to resist telling them I'd helped to get it ready and it was clean as a new pin the day before they moved in.

The look on their faces would be priceless ExDancer.

Ditto, smileless. It’s bad manners to complain unless it really is revolting, like one house I moved into. I just sat down and cried - we’d moved to Jersey, C.I., I had a very young baby and it was a house that belonged to my husband’s employers

When we sold our last house I scrubbed it really,really clean, painted some of the walls and a couple of friends helped me as well. The people who moved in complained that it was dirty. My friends were amazed because it was so clean you could literally eat off the floors! Maybe it is a way of claiming the house as your own or something. Those people moved out after a year and my ex neighbours (who I was still in touch with) said they were filthy and they were glad to see them go. Weird.

How awful grandMattie.

I could have cried when I saw and smelt, the condition of our flat when we eventually got the tenant to move out. Took a year just to get rid of the smell and £1000's as it had to be completely gutted.

We'll never risk letting it out again.

I think the new tenants' desire to clean again could be described as peeing on their own lamp-post putting their own mark on it. No need for them to be so rude though!

I've heard it time and again about the flat opposite me.

I wouldn't say any of the tenants have been that fussy, bit they all claim the ones that were there before left it in a terrible state.

Smileless2012

How awful grandMattie.

I could have cried when I saw and smelt, the condition of our flat when we eventually got the tenant to move out. Took a year just to get rid of the smell and £1000's as it had to be completely gutted.

We'll never risk letting it out again.

Totally agree, my tenants of two years wrecked my home,insurance payout minimal, took all my saving to put it right. M y two neighbours are tenants,either side,both lovely people,but the state of their homes outside leaves a great deal to be desired amongst the rest of us,home owners. Some tenants do not care .

If I ever moved from my current home I would employ a professional company to do a deep clean. I think it should be compulsory to have one so people can be assured they are moving into a clean home.It would cost a lot but then the cost of moving is very expensive anyway.

pluck up courage and tell them next time!

everyone's '
spotless is different.

I've heard this with holiday lets; 'we couldn't un[pack before I had cleaned it from top to bottom; it was filthy.'

This reminds me of living in Married Quarters.
Everyone “marched out” of a house that was spotless and marched into one that was filthy.
You had to leave a house as if you had never lived in it and it was subject to a very thorough inspection so I was always curious as to what happened between the “out” and the “in”.
Once, my friend left before lunch and the new people were in by 2 o’clock and yes….. there had been some sort of riot in the house that no-one noticed!

When someone who is a wee bit too houseproud, and wants the world to know it, says something like "our kitchen floor is clean enough to eat your dinner off!", I wish I could find the courage to say "most normal people use plates......"

When we moved out of our last house me and my mum cleaned it from top to bottom. You could have eaten your dinner off the floor! We arrived at the new house and it really was grim. The previous owners had divorced and the husband lived there on his own. He obviously hadn’t cleaned a thing. I remember my poor mum washing the insides of all the cupboards before you could put anything away.

We moved to a previous property over twenty years ago. The woman selling it was a self employed domestic cleaner who bragged about her high standards and cleaning methods. The first thing we did, before moving any furniture in, was to vacuum every carpet and floor with our new D****n......the dust cylinder was soon full and had to be emptied several times during the process.
We then set about mopping the hard flooring, (bathroom and kitchen) which turned out to be a hands and knees job with a rubbing brush........even found dirty ear buds behind the bathroom basin pedestal!
The skirting boards and door frames were no better........I often wondered how successful she was in her cleaning business.......I wouldn't have paid her in rusty nails! Dirty cow!

Surely it's normal to clean when you move somewhere?
I wouldn't put my bedding in a cupboard with others people's skin cells, or smells, or crumbs potentially lurking around.

We thoroughly cleaned our house before moving including inside kitchen cupboards and fitted wardrobes. The new owner thanked us for leaving it so clean. Likewise the people we bought from had done the same so no complaints from me.

I thought that as part of the tenancy . The tenants had to pay for professional cleaning . My AC certainly did in their rental places . We have a rental property and our tenants have to clean prior to leaving .
When we left our last house , my mum and I hoovered from top to bottom , cleaned everywhere including cupboards and fridge . We briefly met the new owners and she walked in and then asked her husband where the hoover was packed as the place was filthy !!! . My mum and I weren’t happy

Mogsmaw

This reminds me of living in Married Quarters.
Everyone “marched out” of a house that was spotless and marched into one that was filthy.
You had to leave a house as if you had never lived in it and it was subject to a very thorough inspection so I was always curious as to what happened between the “out” and the “in”.
Once, my friend left before lunch and the new people were in by 2 o’clock and yes….. there had been some sort of riot in the house that no-one noticed!

Oh yes!

We got into trouble for painting the dirty walls and skirting boards in the hallway although we painted them the same cream. They were dirty when we moved in and apparently should have remained in the same condition 😀
Also got told off because DH had put a plug on an electric heater as apparently the plug wasn't on the inventory! "That's easy to solve" he said, and cut it off. The inspector's face was a picture.

It does seem to be a phenomenon, ExDancer. Perhaps they are trying to prove how exceptionally clean and house proud they are.

A few weeks before a good friend and neighbour died I had at her request brought down everything from her loft ready for her family to remove. There wasn’t much. A couple of cases and some Christmas decorations. When the new owners had been in situ for a few days we went to introduce ourselves. Not a happy man. Lots of complaints about his new home, which I know had been thoroughly cleaned, including one about a loft full of rubbish. Mr C held his breath! I smiled, simply said oh dear, I am sorry, can’t think who would have put things back after I’d emptied it. He had the grace to look embarrassed, it was never mentioned again and he has since been the most helpful of neighbours. I put it down to moving stress.

Next door to where we lived previously the cottage next door was rented out
The tenants kept bothe house and garden immaculate
Cleaned windows weekly, cut grass brushed paths. Put me to shame.
Even painted the garden shed and fences.
Only problem was they didn’t pay the rent after the first month. Took quite a long time to regain possession. After they left I had u succession of debt collectors and the like calling to see if I knew their forwarding address

I have a rental property and tenants are supposed to leave it in the condition they found it. However, I always leave a break between tenancies to put in professional cleaners. Last year, it looked a bit grubby, so was decorated throughout and I had new carpets fitted. I then advertise the property and it’s never been empty since the day I bought it.

I know this is light-hearted, but thought I’d add to the thread.