<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

My husband and I have recently moved (August, if you consider that recent) into our first home together. When we moved in it was like they didn't really clean anything. Sections of the carpet are heavily stained and even torn. We had to buy a special enzyme cleaner to get the pee smell out from the previous tenant's dog. There's paint overspray everywhere, shittily plastered over holes, missing knobs in closet doors we have had to replace. They showed us the townhouse while someone still lived there and we assumed things would be fixed by the time we moved in.

Apparently not. We put everything we thought of on the move-in checklist but there wasn't even enough room. Stupidly, we didn't take pictures. I've read Google reviews on this place and it's obvious the management company is submitting all the good guest reviews and all of the actual renters complain about getting hit with fees and not getting their deposits back. 

Would it be valid to take a video or pictures before we moved out to show that we had cleaned everything so that they couldn't use that against us?
<bot>: renting from shit property management, what can we do to avoid fees if we didn't take pics at move in, if anything at all?