So, the question is about renting an apartment in general. This woman and her boyfriend have been li…

So, the question is about renting an apartment in general. This woman and her boyfriend have been living together for 13 years and constantly move between rental properties. For the last two years, they lived in a tiny studio apartment, about 25 square meters, very small, but it was enough for two. They don't work. Sometimes I paid (what else could I do, I felt sorry for them), sometimes my stepfather's mother paid. Their stepfather's father passed away, and I immediately wondered how much money they would get from that. They used to have drinking binges, drinking for two weeks, then a week sober. When her mother was sober, her house was always tidy, even though she drank, she was clean. In July, they received 830,000 from an insurance payout, and that's when everything went completely downhill. They haven't been sober once since July. In September, they received 1.5 million in salary from the father, that's part of it. Another part was taken by the father's other son (the father's son), they bought a small house in a village near our city without any amenities. But that's okay, not so important. The rent is extended until November 19th. They haven't moved all their things out yet. About 2 weeks ago, she gave me the keys and asked me to tidy up the place. I went over and was just shocked. Not only did they ruin someone else's apartment (the sofa is broken, all the interior doors are damaged), but over these months, an unbelievable mess accumulated, with cockroaches the size of my little finger. The smell is unbearable. I couldn't stay there; everything is rotten and stinks so badly that a mask doesn't help, nor do open windows. Today, I gathered my courage and thought, 'Well, they're alcoholics, they won't clean up. How can we return the keys to the landlady?' I went there at 8 AM, and it was even worse. Maggots were crawling out of the dishes in the kitchen, everything was dirty, and cockroaches were walking around. I felt so sick that I left. I called my mom; she's more or less sober in the mornings. I explained that I can't clean this up, and neither can she, and honestly, anyone, even one of you, would get sick just by going in there. She said, 'Then we'll just hand over the keys like this.' I'm sitting here in shock, realizing that renting out an apartment comes with huge risks with tenants like these. And how can I even face the landlady? I told her nicely: clean up, pack your things, I'll help you move them. We'll also need to compensate the landlady for the doors and wallpaper because they got cats, they multiplied, and scratched the wallpaper everywhere. BUT IF IT'S CLEAN, THE REST CAN BE PAID FOR WITH MONEY. She doesn't care about any of it. I'm thinking about hiring a cleaning service because I (even though I didn't live there) can't stand the thought of someone renting out a decent apartment and then returning the keys to this dump. Will a cleaning service even take on such a smelly mess? I'm also wondering how they'll clean if the smell alone makes you nauseous. The sight alone could kill you. I don't know what to do. These shameless, pig-like parents. There are 20 days left until the keys are due. The only solution, probably, is a cleaning service, but I need to find out if they'll take on something like this, and even if they do, the price will be very high.