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Re: tenant with a bad attitude - Landlord Forum thread 325034

Re: tenant with a bad attitude by Anonymous on September 28, 2014 @13:45

                              
I did this for a time, but soon removed this clause from my lease. I found that tenants would fail to repair items that were minor since it would cost them to do it. They would let them go until the minor repairs turned major and would cost more than the obligation clause. Not good to allow minor repairs to become big itrems just because they don't want to pay for it.

And when they did do repairs, they did it as cheaply as possible or did so incorrectly because they didn't know how to repair it the right way. For instance, I had one tenant remove my high end solid chrome kitchen faucet for a minor drip. He replaced it with a cheap plastic (chrome painted) one that came from Walmart. In the process, since the new one had no sprayer on it like the old one had, he just cut the sprayer off and left it hanging there. The old high end faucet was a repairable one. He only needed to remove the screw holding the handle on and replace the spring and washer in that handle - a $10 repair kit. But since it was in the lease that he was responsible for these repairs, he didn't contact me to find out how to fix it. He threw my good faucet away (a $120 faucet!) and I was left with plastic junk that I ended up replacing after he left.

Yes, it is a hassle to be bothered with small repairs. But I'd rather do the small repairs (or hire someone to do them in your case) than allow those little leaks or problems to escalate into big repairs simply because the tenant doesn't want to pay for them. I removed that clause and will never put it back in.
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