So my family was supposed to move into a new place tomorrow. We have our whole life packed up in a uhaul right now. The new landlord called saying there was a mattress and a little bit of garbage left there, he'd tale $50 off the rent if we just took that stuff outside and he'd pick it up this week. We though no biggie, just taking some stuff outside saves us fifty bucks.

When we looked at this place people were still living there and it was kinda messy but the landlord assured us that the house would be cleaned, carpets washed, walls repainted, and repairs done. We really needed a place with that much space so we signed a lease with him, trusting that it would look much better cleaned up.

He told us the house was open tonight and we could start moving stuff in. We still decided that we wouldn't move anything until tomorrow but we wanted to show SO's mom and sister the new place so we went by.

We pull into the driveway and there is garbage piled up against the house past the first floor windows. We go in and the house reaks of feces, urine, and mold! There is rotting food in the sink, garbage, dirt, and random items all over the floor. The stove was pulled away from the wall and the floor underneath was full of grease, dirt, and small toys(previous tenants had a child). They left tooth brushes, pill bottles, and cigarette butts all over the bathroom. The tub was full of mold, the toilet was backed up.

Only the living and dining room were repainted, horribly, paint all over the trim and drips on the hard wood floors. The carpeting was sticky and stained. Also what we were told was wall to wall carpet was just rough cut sections of carpeting thrown over rotting hardwood. When we viewed the place all edges were covered by furniture. The bedroom walls were scratched up, with huge areas of paint missing looking like it bubbled and chipped off. The floors were once again disgusting carpet covering linoleum that was pulling up off of rotting wood. All of the closet doors were broken or missing. And less than half of the lighting fixtures worked(we checked the bulbs and they were fine), all rooms had ceiling fans that were broken. So I called the landlord saying it was unacceptable. He just said he could take another 50 off of the rent for us having to clean, paint, and fix everything ourselves. His logic was that $100 would cover the only 10 hours it should take to do everything!!

Then my SO opened the basement door and a cat ran out! The landlord claimed that non of his previous tenants had animals when we signed the lease because I asked because our daughter has very bad pet dander allergies. While on the phone with him tonight he claimed that his son ran the cat out of the house because it was left behind(great guys). The cat would coming running if we went anywhere near the kitchen cupboards, obviously used to being fed and it was hungry.

After the landlord trying to reason with us that it's not that bad, after taking pictures of everything unsafe for anyone living there, and finding that poor cat, he finally told us that we can come pick up our security deposit and be done with it.

I have never been so disappointed and heartbroken. We feel like we have let our daughter down because of this but there is no way we(or anyone else) could live there! We're staying at SO's mom's house for now but everything is packed away.

I'm sorry about the length of this but I just had to get it out of my head and off my chest. I don't know how to feel yet.

Sorry about any typos as well, I'm on my phone.