I shall definitely be wary of property managers when next I move out of a rented place.

Current situation is that the bird I'm dealing with comes across as annoyed and irritated. I had to break a "fixed-term" lease early, which is technically possible, but things are designed to discourage it. She gave the distinct impression she didn't want to let me do this. It may be her natural demeanour - up until about 2 months before I moved out I was dealing with someone else - but she always sounds like she's taken a dislike to me. Her first reaction when I said I had to break the lease was one of "you can't do that" when I knew very well I could.

Anyway. The current debacle is over some "stains" in the carpet. She maintains they are there and can't be cleaned. I maintain I never saw them and that the carpet cleaning guy - the one they suggested, incidentally - said there weren't any. Not a pleasant thing to be sprung with. I wish there was an easy way to overturn [i]her[/i] judgement that there are "stains" there. She's even cited the fact that she spoke to the Dept of Fair Trading about it: which is only about what to do about it, not whether there are any offensive marks.

I knew I should have asked to deal with someone else as soon as I met her.

Wade, who just wants to vent and is not actually concerned over the not-very-great-cost.