• Hikermick@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      My last renter texted me and told me the toilet wouldn’t flush. She said she “took it apart” but couldn’t fix it so it needed to be snaked out. I go there and a neighbor told me she set a can of cat food on the tank for her kitten to eat and it knocked the can into the bowl. She tried to flush it down. Her boyfriend shows up and tells me the same story. She only took the tank off (nowhere near where a clog would be) and she replaced it without replacing the gasket so it had been leaking water. Once I knew what the problem was I fixed it in 30 minutes. Her keeping the truth from me made it take a lot longer and cost more. I charged her $300 less rent than the property next door in a trendy neighborhood because I didn’t want to be "part of the problem ". Long story short, not everyone is cut out to be a home owner.

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        22 days ago

        My toilet and drain is maintained well enough that it would flush some cat food if needed.

        Thanks to my landlord that is Mountainbiking all day.

      • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
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        22 days ago

        because I didn’t want to be "part of the problem "

        And yet, you’re still a landlord… 🤔

        I guess the greed won over, eh?

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        22 days ago

        Your claim to be a worker because you did half an hour’s work in a month for a landlord’s income that’s so large you can afford to discount it by £300 a month isn’t the winning argument you think it is.

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        22 days ago

        It’s a good thing we’ve got people like you making that choice instead of leaving it to everyone to decide

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        22 days ago

        Sounds like a moron, but fixing a toilet once doesn’t make it a job. It’s passive income like an investment

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              21 days ago

              I paid income taxes, property taxes and since I sold the house I will soon pay capital gains taxes

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            22 days ago

            I own a house, got a plumber for replace a cistern was like 30 mins of work, and I did that whilst working!

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                22 days ago

                Illiterate and a landlord? That does check out, you pathetic excuse for a parasitic infection somehow confused for a human.

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                  22 days ago

                  Care to explain to me how anyone replaces a cistern in 30 minutes? Either this guy got his terminology mixed up or they got ripped off

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                    22 days ago

                    How do you take longer? It’s a ten minute job with a journeyman and apprentice helper.

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            22 days ago

            I own a house. I work and I hire people if I can’t fix something myself. So far I’ve only had to do that once in 4 years. Owning a house is not a job. Landlord literally has “LORD” in the name… kinda hard to defend, friend.

            • Hikermick@lemmy.world
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              22 days ago

              That’s the strangest argument I’ve heard in a while. Owning a house isn’t a job but maintaining one is. Plumbing, electrical, carpentry, roofing, HVAC are all jobs and if you don’t think so you must be one of these Republicans that think a person who gets their hands dirty doesn’t deserve a living wage.

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                22 days ago

                A plumber or a sparky doesn’t just maintain one house, and if they’re just doing maintenance, probably work on hundreds of houses a year. Maintaining your own house takes a fraction of the time and effort of working a housing-related trade full time.

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                22 days ago

                Owning a house isn’t a job but maintaining one is.

                I think you just agreed with each other a little bit.