"Life lessons" in renting...

Most travel companies give you the choice of having housing provided or receiving a generous stipend.  Being close enough to home to check out a few places, and sufficiently broke, I decided to take the stipend.  I was excited to find a cute apartment complex with heat included in the rent.
Since I was eighteen I've lived in at least seven different apartments, all of varying quality.  Some were new, some older, some in a bit of disrepair or worn.  But never have I come to move in to a new place that was not clean.

Until now.

So excited to get out of hotel living and into my temporary home, I was speechless when I was first confronted with this:

Management assured me that it will be taken care of ASAP.... Keep your fingers crossed for me.

So, lesson learned. Never, never, never, NEVER sign a lease until you've gotten a walk through of your intact, CLEANED apartment!!!!!!

Update: Just got a call that they had the cleaning crew come and scrub it. hopefully it'll be better by the time I return.

Update update: IT'S CLEANED!!!!   Didn't realize how very extremely important that was to me until today...