A group of ten Catholic high school teachers stayed in my house for the weekend to see a football game. They were family of one of my friends, and I knew they weren't wealthy, so I gave them a discount of two hundred dollars! They repaid me by bringing me a bottle of Canadian whiskey and totally trashing my house. I'm trying to go through the request money process, but I don't know how to give the replacement or repair value of many of these things, and who has time to do all of this?! I didn't see an option for a cleaning service reimbursement either.
Items damaged, broken or missing:
Kitchen cabinet door
Bathroom closet door
Garbage disposal
Bathroom sink drain plug
Ceramic pan
Teflon pan
Dish towel
Leather recliner
Bathroom wainscoting
Cleanliness:
Trash on the floor, nightstands, and sinks in nearly every room
Food on the kitchen floor
Various stains on kitchen table, dining room table, kitchen sink, coffee tables
Dirty clothing left behind including dirty underwear, socks, an old pair of shoes, a jersey, a windbreaker, a towel
Dozens of pebbles left in my clothes dryer, which was apparently used without permission to dry all their shoes
Various other jerk moves:
Lights were left on
TV was left on
Several windows were left open in the 30 degree weather with my heater set to 75 degrees
I found my fine crystal, used for God knows what, in the upstairs bathroom
Seemingly every cabinet in my house was rummaged through, from the bathroom closet (which they broke), the cupboards in my den which were left ajar, my kitchen cupboards from which they removed random things like my 10 pound bag of whey protein…
Various other kitchen items were left around the house and in the garage
My garage door mechanism was unhooked so that I had to park on the street, and try to figure out why my garage door wasn’t opening in the middle of the night. I couldn’t sort it out until the next day.
Since they broke things like my kitchen cabinet, and then tried to conceal it by propping it in place, and my dish cloth was simply thrown away in the garbage, I have no idea what else might be missing which I have not been told. I have been finding more damaged, broken, or missing items since I returned a few days ago.
What should I do? How do I give an estimate for something like one broken kitchen cabinet? Some of this stuff I might be able to fix myself, but do I then bill for my own time? I've never had this happen before and I'm totally overwhelmed.