Conflit avec proprietaire

I presume you have shared the costs of the expert with the landlord?

If this is the case, the expert represents equally the interests of both parts.

If you didn't agree with the expertise, why did you sign it?
I am afraid it is too late, now.

Yes, we did share the costs of the expert. But an expert is chosen by him so they know each other very well..
I signed because I was pressed by both lanlord, (who's been telling me that i moved out 1 month before official preavie) and expert (who told me that should i disagree with the result of expertise , the other expert would cost more).
I had to pay a lot of money for clean , very well handled appartment. That's why I want to know which organisation regulated teh price lists of the experts, based on which the final costs of the things are calculated during an expertise...

It was your right to take your own expert (and pay him the full price). But you didn't do it and now it too late.

Why have you not told him during the inspection that you find the hourly price for a cleaning leady too expensive? You had the right to reject this price before to sign.

In order to avoid this kind of situation when dealing with Expats who are not familiar with the Belgian rental laws, I always give a checklist to my tenants (that I got from a relocation agency) so they can be prepared to the exit house inspection.

Here is the checklist:
-The rented place should be given back in the exact state you got it  (described in the initial house inspection report)
- It needs to be perfectly clean and in perfectly maintained
- Clean out the smoke extractor in the kitchen and all the grease filters need to be perfectly clean.  Otherwise replace them before the exit house inspection
- Calc: use a good anticalc for all taps in the kitchen and bathroom including opening the tip of the faucet and cleaning the filter under it
- Light fixtures; make sure all the light fixtures are firmly on the wall and that all bulbs work (unless they were dead when you moved in)
- Rain gutters must be perfectly clean
- Check for scratches on the parquet floor and doors; repair them if any
- Vacuum and shampoo the carpets (it doesn’t matter if they were not shampooed when you entered. If the expert said they were clean and proper, you will need to clean them like that)
- Dirt smudges on the wall; you may be charged for painting the whole wall unless the painting is more than 9 years old, in which case it is fully amortized and you don’t have to repaint it. N.B you would still need to repair holes or clean the pencil writings of your children for instance.
- Check window and door handles and locks to make sure they work okay
- Wash the curtains if they belong to the landlord and keep the receipt
- Have the last maintenance reports for your boiler, heating system, water softener, alarm, chimney (even if you didn’t use the fireplace)
- Make sure all appliances are clean and actually work if they belong to the landlord (dishwasher, dryer, washing machine, cooker, oven, microwave)
- Finally read your incoming “Etat des lieux” for those damages that were recorded when you entered and make sure they are not charged to you. All damages to the building's structure like wall cracks, leaking roof, damp, broken intercom, are the charge of the landlord but ONLY if you told him about. If you didn't, he could claim them from you.

You don't have to accept, but if you have signed, that means that you accept, you have to discuss before signing !

ça veut bien dire que l'expert que j'avais appélé n'était pas très bon !

je ne l'ai d'ailleurs plus repris ensuite

25 € ça me semble beaucoup quand même

ou qu'elle n'a pas été très attentive

Morale de l'histoire: il vaut toujours mieux rendre un bien parfaitement propre et entretenu.

Ce n'est quand même pas la mer à boire que de nettoyer son appartement avant l'état des lieuxde sortie, non? En plus cela évite toute discussion de ce type, puisque tout est parfaitement propre...