In my opinion
It would be a courtesy, before charging, to email and advise the property’s concerns.
A little story.
In September 2012
I rushed out of a Brooklyn hotel having indudlged in shopping at a Century 21 that ran me close to checkout time.
I rifled the contents out of the safe, or so I thought and unbeknownst to me I have left some junk card stuff in it.
A couple of weeks later, I received an unsolicited FedEx oversized envelope with the stuff,, none by the way which were actually valuable. I hadn’t even noticed it’s absence ....
and we’re going to charge you for express delivery. Well, here, I’m thinking, well my mistake but if they’d emailed and asked, I would have said bin it, but after all, I had stuck them in the safe “so they musta been valuable”.
So a good lesson that what’s valuable for one, might not be for another. The gaffer tape (gosh even in rentals tenants can’t put a hook into the wall to hang a picture) may have assisted sleep but my mother always used to say “don’t touch what you can’t afford to pay for”, and while care may have been taken by one person, it’s not the case anyone else will do so.
As for the round dollar charge, that in itself seems lazy accounting, and lacks due diligence And certainly copies of invoices ought have been supplied by the accommodation before imposing the charge
Well, back to my little story, the clincher is that it took til late June 2014 for it to turn up on my credit card. It was the most expensive express post I’ve ever had US$74 Fortunately exchange rates hadn’t altered that far because in sept 12, US $ was worth less than $1 Aussie but 21 months later, it was slightly the other way around.
Of course, all that time later I could laugh about it. In the moment, I was frustrated, angry and disappointed. How could they not see, what I saw...
Besides, if the apartments are that dated it prob gives reason & impetus for switching to another accommodation for future visits.
