Settlement resolves €180 rental cleaning dispute with €60 payment and mutual release

A settlement has resolved Elina Salonen’s request for repayment of a €180 rental cleaning deduction: Oskari Lehtinen will pay her €60 promptly after written acceptance, without admitting fault. Elina will withdraw her repayment request, and the dispute will be fully resolved upon payment.

The case record names the District court serving Tampere, but records no judicial ruling on whether the deduction was justified. The agreement instead settles a disagreement over the condition of the kitchen after Elina moved out and whether she should bear the cost of additional cleaning.

The €60 payment is one-third of the amount Elina sought. It is an agreed repayment, not a court award or a finding that any particular portion of the cleaning charge was improper.

The settlement also provides for a comprehensive mutual release covering the cleaning deduction and related claims. Alongside Elina’s withdrawal of the €180 request, that release defines the scope of the agreement; payment is the stated condition for full resolution.

The no-admission term leaves responsibility for the disputed cleaning unresolved. Neither party’s account of the kitchen’s condition becomes a judicial finding through the settlement.

Elina sought the return of the full €180 deducted from the amount owed to her. The supplied record says the apartment was cleaned before surrender, but contains no fuller account of her arguments.

Oskari maintained that the deduction was fair because the oven and kitchen surfaces needed further cleaning after move-out. He said he paid a cleaner €180 and deducted only that amount, seeking to have Elina’s repayment request denied or materially reduced.

He also acknowledged that his first look at the flat was not a detailed inspection. His position therefore distinguished that initial look from his later assessment that extra kitchen cleaning was needed.

The dispute arose after Elina left the apartment. Oskari paid for additional kitchen cleaning and deducted €180; Elina then requested repayment.

The fact sheet lists invoices or receipts as supporting the deduction, but supplies no detailed contents of those documents. It also records that no witness was available to attest to the kitchen’s condition, and the supplied record contains no testimony.

Those limits matter to the distinction at the centre of the dispute: paying for cleaning and establishing that the departing tenant should bear its cost are separate questions. The settlement ends the parties’ claims on agreed terms without resolving that factual disagreement or establishing a legal rule about rental cleaning deductions.