I get @muhammajelly and @CWOTUS are coming from. But having met a lot of renters, being one for so long, and knowing so many landlords being involved in cleaning or confidence.
I can tell you that not all fixes are better then alternative. Some people have no clue what they doing and yet they do it any way. Making a bigger problem.
And you don’t always discover issues in the first week of renting. Furnaces have gone out mid lease because no one ever serviced them or changed the filter. But furnace rooms are usually locked and it is not my job or part of my contract. Same with hot water issues. Or water softeners. I’ve been infested with carpenter ants during the summer after signing a lease in the fall. No warning from the landlord. And I had to take care of that issue myself. Or had 20 year old appliances die on me.
The biggest issue I had was black mold. I am allergic to mold anyhow and yeast. So the house was making me sick. There was evidence of mildew but not mold. Though I wasn’t really looking. It smelled but like indian food. I use scentscy and vinegar.
My plants were too high to see the dirt was growing fur. My cat bowl I change twice a day. But I thought it was odd that there would always be dust in it. I have a pet peeve about dirty dishes so it was a month before I felt so incredibly sick, I left dishes over night, after the food tasted off. I woke up furry dishes.
Turns out the refrigerator cooling pan was alive with fungus. As were my plants. I lost my deposit moved out and they promptly moved someone else it. What bugs me the most was there was a newborn in the other side of duplex. I told the family. But she didn’t have any money to move. Slum lords. They may allow pets. But a lot of them are just nasty individuals.