The following document is an attachment on all of our leases:

Your security deposit is refundable by the New Brunswick Rentalsman if all your obligations have been fulfilled at vacancy.  Your rent and any other financial commitments, as per your lease must be paid in full. Your accommodation must be cleaned to standards acceptable to the landlord. Physical damages from accident and abuse must be remedied to a standard acceptable to your landlord or a repair allowance will be claimed against the deposit.

Cleaning:

1.         Hard surface flooring must be washed. Carpets must be wet cleaned using a power cleaner method such as steam cleaning or rotary scrub and vacuum.

2.         Horizontal surfaces must be dusted and washed. (window sills and rails, baseboards, door and window casings, shelves and cabinets, light fixtures)

3.         Appliances:  Fridges must be empty, defrosted, spotlessly cleaned, and all shelves and accessories installed.  Stoves must have oven cleaned of baked on food and stains, and burner rings and drip trays must be similarly cleaned.  Appliances need to be carefully moved from their normal position to remove accumulated debris and spills and the floor washed underneath.

4.         All garbage is to be removed from the premises ready for pick-up by the Municipal garbage service.

5.         Heavily stained walls, woodwork, windows must be washed.

6.         Bathroom fixtures must be shiny clean (porcelain).  Medicine cabinet must be empty and clean.  Special effort to clean around toilet including adjacent walls and floor behind, and the toilet seat, using disinfectant cleaners (ammonia, chlorine).

7.         Kitchen cabinets must be empty of food and packaging.  Shelves to be washed and any spills, debris to be cleaned up, including cupboard fronts.  Sink to be scrubbed.

Repairs:

1.         Damages which are the tenant’s responsibility may be repaired prior to vacancy and inspected for quality of workmanship and materials.  Inferior repairs may be improved by the landlord at the tenant’s expense.

2.         Tenant will be responsible for missing or broken door and window hardware, light shades, appliance parts and accessories, plumbing fixtures, window dressings if included, broken window/door glass and screens, and loss or damage to the heating and electrical fixtures and services.

3.         Punctures in walls and ceilings will require repair and redecorating. Heavy gouges, tears, burns, stains on floor coverings which cannot be removed or repaired will result in a depreciation allowance against the deposit.

Deposit Recovery:

For information on recovering your security deposit, see:

https://www2.snb.ca/content/dam/snb/tribunal/SD-Tenants-E.pdf

A forwarding address is to be provided to the Rentalsman and the Landlord for any necessary correspondence.

$150.00 will be withheld from your security deposit until we have ascertained that cleaning is adequate. If it is not, cleaning expenses are charged at $25.00 per hour including equipment (other than floor cleaning rentals), plus the costs for cleaning supplies.  Equipment rental charges are billed at actual cost.

Repair expense is charged at $30.00 per hour including tools and equipment, plus materials.

A vacancy inspection and report will be done when the accommodations are ready to be turned over to the landlord and keys are turned in.  Any cleaning or repair work not done by vacancy date will not be permitted to be done at a later time.  Turnovers must occur promptly and every effort made to have facilities ready for incoming tenants or prospective tenant showings.

The landlord does not accept any responsibility for property left on the premises, unless prior arrangements have been made with the landlord.  Any items left after vacancy will be disposed of by the landlord and the garbage/debris removal cost claimed against the deposit.

Failure to turn in keys will result in a re-keying or lock exchange expense charged against the deposit.