CHECK OUT PROCEDURE
Take this checkout very seriously so you won’t have surprise if the landlord keeps a part of your deposit for anything broken, missing or damage.
Ready for it!?
Follow the steps:
- Check your room
- Remove all decorations (if you stick pictures on the wall, remember that it is not recommended as it always leaves stains).
- All furniture must be placed in the original position for the next tenant.
- Check if anything is broken/damage in your room:
- if all lights and bulbs are functional
- the furniture: chair, desk, slated of the bed, dryer rack, curtains holder (broken or near to fall), wardrobe, mirror, etc.
- if there is any leak from the heater/radiator
- if wall and floor are in good shape
- if there is any mark, broken part, scratch, door problem
- if the keys are functional
- If anything is broken/damage, you need to replace it on your own before you leave with the same item or equivalent.
- Clean all the room (under bed, desk, inside wardrobe, floor, mirror, wash the mattress cover, etc.)
- Be sure that nothing is left from your personal belongings (towel, bed sheets, bottles, etc.)
- Trash must be removed and properly disposed in the building trash bin.
Windows must be cleaned and closed (imagine if it is raining after you leave!).
If any remark, write it down on your check-out protocol and make clear pictures.
- Check the entrance/kitchen/living room/dining area
- Check if anything is broken/damage in the common area of your flat:
- I advise you to replace it on your own before you leave.
- I advise you to share between flat mates costs of common equipment.
- All your food must be removed from kitchen cabinet, fridge or freezer (don’t let it for your roommates, from experience we know they will remain there after your roommates departure).
If you do not want to throw away your personal belongings and food, you can always give them to other who needs it like to « La Croix rouge » or other organization in Prague.
Check: - if oven, microwave, toaster, kettle, electrical plates are functional and clean
- if the water is going properly through the sink. Look under the sink to see if there isn’t any leak.
- if the dishwasher is functional
- if all lights and bulbs are functional
- all your furniture. E.g.: chairs, table, kitchen cabinet, kitchen counter, sofa, etc.
- state of wall and floor
- if there is any mark, broken part, scratch, door problem
- take out all your personal belongings (empty alcohol bottles, stickers, notes glued on walls, flags, etc.)
If any remark, write it down on your check out protocol and make clear pictures.
- Check the bathroom(s)/toilets/washing machine
- Check all bathrooms of the flat:
- if all lights and bulbs are functional
- All furniture: mirror, closet, shower, sink, toilet, washing machine, etc.
- if there is any mark, broken part, scratch, door problem
- state of wall and floor
- Remove all your personal belongings (empty shampoo, soap, towels, etc.)
- Reminder
- All personal belongings must be removed. If you have any souvenirs from your Erasmus time or anything that wasn't in the flat before you arrived, you have to take it out of the flat.
- Keep in mind that your flat will welcome new tenants after your departure so be sure the flat is fresh and clean.
- Once you leave the flat, if something is broken in the common areas between the moment you left and my check-up, the costs will be divided between all the tenants. Except if your flat mates take all the responsibility.
- Also, if you are not the last one leaving the flat, please help your roommates in the cleaning of the common areas so the last one doesn't have to clean everything after you left!
- You can leave your flat any time before the end of your contract, as long as your rent is covered. But it is not possible after (if you wish to extend your stay and the room is still free, you can contact the agency Student Room Flat).
- Be careful that you have checked everything before you leave, as there is no returning to the room/apartment possible once the checkout is completed and you left the flat.
Attention!
If any of the listed steps is not respected or followed, there will be additional costs to cover the intervention and transport.
Examples:
- If cleaning is not properly done at the check-out, cleaning will be provided by an external company at your own costs.
- If you don't replace anything broken/damage in your room and common spaces, there will be additional costs to cover the intervention and transport.
- If you do not reorganize the furniture in your bedroom/common spaces in the original position, you will be charged you as we will need to send someone to remove it for the next tenant.
- Last things to do before leaving
- Write down every remark on the check-out protocol (not clean/broken/doubt)
- Take pictures of the state of the apartment and send it to info@fiftyfive.cz.
- At least 2 pictures of your room where I can see your entire room.
- Detailed and clear picture of anything damaged in your room and common spaces of the flat.
- Make sure the heating of your room is off
- Windows must be closed
- Turn off all lights of your bedroom and of the flat
- Lock the door of your room
- Sign the check-out protocol
- Check if you have all the keys (room, apartment, building, trash, etc.)
- Put the protocol and your keys in the envelope you received at your check-in.
- Put the envelope filled in the check-out mailbox of your flat.
- Now you can leave!!
