Upon first glance, the charges seem excessive but then when you think about it the only one I can see that might be unreasonable would be the shower stall. With me, $100.00 would have had the entire bathroom cleaned but again, not knowing the circumstances…. Was it just not cleaned this week or was this accumulated grime built up over the entire time of your lease because your mama did not teach you that shower doors need to be wiped down at least once a week?
I know from experience it would cost me at least $100.00 to get a plumber out to look at a problem, more if he had to do any work and $75.00 for an electrician is certainly not unbelievable. And even if the landlord did the repairs himself or with his own crew, why should he be paid less than the going rates for either trade.
If the sink had magically clogged itself, I would pay the bill. If the tenant had sent something down the sink that should not have been sent down, I would expect the tenant to pay for it. Same thing with the light switch, If it broke under normal wear and tear, my cost, if it was abused, your cost.
As for the cooktop, I guess it depends on what kind of top it was and exactly the damage was. If it was a glass cooktop, no question that it would have cost that much. If it was gas or electric and had the enamel damaged beyond repair or used as a stepping stool to reach the top of the cabinets (voice of experience here) and bent to hell, why should the landlord bear the cost? And, again, if you knew it was damaged why did you not say something during the walk through. If it was just the drip pans, then you got ripped off. I would have charged $30.00 if I had to replace all four but, as I said earlier, if they looked bad and not the way you received them when you moved in then you should have replaced them before the walkthrough.
I just spent over $212.00 to replace a crisper bin and shelf and two of the plastic door shelf guards on the refrigerator. I did not charge for my time to order and install these parts. I should have but there are other circumstances I took into account.
The tenant also damaged the door shelf in the freezer, I tried to replace that too but it meant buying an entire freezer door but the cost of the door, plus tax and shipping would have been over $200.00 by the time it was through but the damage was more cosmetic than functional so I let it go. And then there was the melted plastic bottom to the freezer. The insulation actually showed through. I could not even get this part. The entire refrigerator would need to be replaced. Would this have been excessive? Probably so and I would have pro-rated the cost to the tenant based on the age of the unit but why should I have to pay for someone elses stupidity? They should have known better than to put something in the freezer that was hot enough to melt plastic.
Lordy, I love being a landlord.
By the way, we are not all in this to screw people over. I gave a former tenant his full refund back just last month. He had gone through his unit, cleaned everything including the stove (you would be surprised how many people “forget” to do this), replaced all the bulbs, replaced the drip pans, replaced a miniblind that had gotten broken, in other words returned the unit to me in the condition it was when he rented it and he got every penny back.