@Debra300 Oh, sorry, didn't mean to leave you on the edge of your seat 🙂 Well, I wasn't in the habit of going in there, because the place had long-term renters, who would stay on average about 8 months- it wasn't an Airbnb type situation. I told him that if he couldn't keep the place clean, he needed to get a cleaner on a regular basis, So he did do that, but subsequent times I went over, it was still not in good shape. He told me the maid didn't show up all the time when she was supposed to, and that she wasn't that thorough. I told him he should look for another maid.
He moved out a few months later, proudly telling me that he left it as he found it. But before he moved in, I had spent 8 hours with a cleaner, both of us working, and the place was immaculate. It most definitely wasn't when he moved out- it appeared that no piece of furniture, no matter how light, had ever been moved when cleaning, and there was bits of garbage and funk behind and under everything. The tiled kitchen counter grout was black with mold, as was the shower stall.
Then I found that the plants on the upstairs balcony, a number of them, which were lush and lovely when he moved in and which he assured me he was watering (that was part of the deal for renters- the rent was cheap so the place didn't come with a gardener) were all completely dead- he hadn't watered at all. When I called him out on that, his excuse was "I just didn't go out there on the balcony that much", so I asked him if he would let a patient die of dehydration because he "just didn't check on them that much", at which he turned bright red, looked at the floor and sheepishly said "Of course not."
There were also a number of missing items- blankets, cookware, etc. I had to go retrieve those from him- his excuse for that being that he had someone else pack up for him since he had to work and they didn't know what was his and what stayed with the house.