So I get all cleaned up and ready to go to my appointment this afternoon.
On the way out, one of my tennant comes to me and says "I have a leak" . So I do the perfect slum lord thing and ask him where - fully expecting him to tilt his head over so I can watch what little brains he has left spill out. But alas, he says, under the kitchen sink.
So, like a complete fool, I go in and open the cabinate door and stick my head down there and tell this moron to turn on the water. He does.
I get hit with a full force of water coming out of the basket drain.
You see, Mr. Wizzerd noticed he had a leak. So, he grabs a big pair of vice grips and proceeds to break the pipe off the basket drain under the sink. THEN, he tells me he has a leak. He forgets to mention that the pipe down there is now borken and lets me put my face in there to see where the water is coming from and how big of a deal it will be to fix it.
So now the plumber is here. He says it is going to take about an hour and a half. And cost me 250 bucks. Mr. Wizard does not have the 250 bucks to pay for the repairs and it would just end up being a hassle to make him do so any way so I have to eat the cost and write it off my taxes next year.
So, I have 90 minutes to cool down before the plumber leaves. It's eaither that or bury this idiot in the yard when no one is looking and play dumb about it.
This is the same guy who decided to hang 100 pictures - some in frames some not on the bedroom wall with nails. The Panneled bedroom wall.
The same guy who's 2003 Toyota threw a rod after 3 years. Because he didn't know he had to have the oil chnaged.
He is living proof that some people are alive only because it is illegal to shoot them.
AL
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Strangle him and bury him in the backyard :innocentwhistle:
Ditto.......no one will know and I won't tell. :innocentwhistle:
You know, when we bought this place, it was usppoed to be an investment property. Both the owner and this tenant were living here and we figured we could rent the owners appartment out with no problem. Lots of illegals around and they pay top dollar :)
Anyway, the owner said he had just bought a new house in New Boston, and he had to sell before the 5 year mark came up for tax reasons.
The house was appriased at 272,000 and we got it for 248,000 and the owner paid half the closing cost.
I don't think he had a new house, or was he looking to get a tax break.
He just wanted away from Karl the tenant.
Never saw it coming. He snuck it right by me the snake.
As the plumber was just leaving with a big smile on his face, and a nice fat check in his pocket, I noticed that the handle on the screen door, the same one i replaced last year was duct taped to the door.
I just let it go.
I need to go find my meds.
AL
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Hey, I saw that show... Abbott and Costello meet the Plumber! If I remember correctly you had a really funny look on your face when the water hit you. :roflmao:
On a serious note, evict him if he's too much trouble. Renting to people is more trouble than it is worth. My parents at one time owned seventeen properties, not slum stuff either. Good clean decent homes that Dad went through and remodeled and kept them very nice. They were in good neighborhoods and the ideal was to rent to upper scale tenants. Pop ran back ground checks and talked to character references, work references, ect... After a couple of years he threw in the towel and sold them all off. What headaches (and A-holes) people can be. I think honestly that is why some landlords just give up and quit worrying about the property as long as the rent comes in on time and the city inspectors leave them alone. Dealing with people over money and property is such a hassle.
Dad has been at this for several years now. He even converted a tobacco barn for a rental house. He has had good tenants and bad. He really hated to see the good ones move on, but thy eventually do. The bad ones he either sets them straight or they move on. One had let the trash pile up all over the property. It was head high in the carport. He gave tem their eviction notice . When they went to looking for another place to rent as good as what they had, they decided to clean up their act. Good thing too, I wasn't looking forward to helping dad move at least four tons of trash.
I think 250 is a bit steep! It only took 20 to 50 dollars worth of parts even if it had to go back to the drain. And almost all of it screws on or has a pressure coupling.
Maybe a handy man bussiness would be good to look into .Jimmie
Al
If he ever has problems with the toilet....look at the pipes before you yell FLUSH IT. :eyebrownod:
Quote from: Roundman on June 22, 2007, 09:17:19 PM
Al
If he ever has problems with the toilet....look at the pipes before you yell FLUSH IT. :eyebrownod:
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I wouldn't strangle him Al............send him to Canada. I think that would be worse than death. :biggrin:
I do Drive by's for 50 bucks, OR some new perty calls.
P.S. if anything were to "accidently" happen to him, :innocentwhistle: just drag him down on that other road. He will just blend in down there.
It would be bad if a flaming call body were to hit him on the head while he is getting home!!
"...cost me 250 bucks"
Gee Whiz Al... I would have strangled the plumber then the renter ! :innocentwhistle:
I've been a professional plumber for over 35 years. Here, that little 1/2 hour job should have only set you back about $75 (including parts).
Then again if you had told me what the renter did to you I would have given you a nice price break..... that is after I stopped :roflmao:
Man all you plumbers need to move here to NH, It's 48 bucks just to have them pull up in your drive way.
Then they charge you for the work.
In fairness to the plumber, the pipe in the house are old, silver soldered not PVC, So he replaced the pipe under the sink and the basket drain. Since buying this property I have had them on speed dial. Two furnaces, two water heaters and some other plumbing work. All I know is that they are professional and do good work.
The toilet line was funny. Ha Ha But I will remember the tip LOL
I could not evict this guy if I wanted to. The law here would have him sitting in that apartment for a good 6 months rent free while I went through the process. But it is coming to that. Even if I have to eat the rent he is getting really annoying. A while back I had to say something to him when I found he had his sister in law and her two kids living with them. And their dog. I got the sister in law moved out, but then I found out that she could not have a dog at her new apartment so he said he would keep it. I got him to get rid of the mutt but it was a fight LOL.
I could go on for hours about this guy but this sums him up perfectly if there are any doubts this guy is a waste of flesh.
When I first met him, I asked hm if he was a hunter. He told me he used to be, but his wife would no longer let him have guns in the house after he tripped and fell hunting in Maine and ended up shooting himself in the ass with a 30/06.
I don't know if that story is true or not, but if you knew him, you would probably believe it.
Al
Al,
Are you saying that you have a half-ass renter?
Jerry
Walked right into that one didn't I ? :roflmao: :roflmao:
Al
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Knew a fellow a few years ago that had quite a bit of holdings in real estate. One property in particular had this really AH of a tenant. He was always late on the rent and was always screwing up the property. This guy I knew asked the guy several times to move, but kept getting a lot of crap from the tenant. This guy finally had to resort to his ace in the hole. He had this friend, an ex NFL football player. Black, 6'6" tall and about 320, with no fat. Really mean looking guy. This dude made a visit to the tenant, knocked on the door, and in a firm, but harsh voice, told the guy that the landlord was a good friend, and didn't like to see his good friends have problems. When he left, he let his coat open up a bit and the tenant was able to catch a glimpse of the 45 in the holster. My friend said that within two weeks the tenant was gone. I have always laughed at this story. I guess it all depends on how you approach a problem.
The poor stupid renter said-------Click here to watch Stangle-me (http://media.putfile.com/Stangle-me)
Al you may have to resort to the triple S tactic that Kalifornians have been using since the 90's with the Mountain Lion hunting ban:
Shoot Shovel Shutup
Ah, I remember that one well.
My wife reminded me that this is of course my own fault. Last Decenber, about two weeks after the archery deer season had ended, I saw him loading up his car one night with his bow and camo and other gear. So I walked over and asked him what he was up to. He told me he was going deer hunting in the morning. Like a dumby I let him know that the season had ended two weeks ago. Should of wated and then called the game warden the next day :laf:
Al
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Going deer hunting in the morning :rolleye: Some people are amazing.
Mannnnnnnn this topic is drawing people from predator masters like stink on shit. :roflmao: :roflmao:
Someone got a guilty conscious over there. They are literally rifling in here tonight one right after the other. :roflmao:
I just love server monitoring software :innocentwhistle:
Al, I know what your talking about bud. We have 8 rentals and tis so much fun dealing with complete morons on a daily basis.
A few months ago we had a lady that was behind a little on rent, had her boyfriend and two other guys living with her and one of them made the mistake of mouthing off to Lil-man. Now me being the nice quite guy I am, I merely walk over from my house , drinking a beer, knock on the front door and wait. I know they are in there but they don't want to talk to me....soooo.....I ask them in a "very" nice way to open the door or I'll open it for them. Well here come the 3 little pricks thinking they are going to impress the slut. So as they are yelling at me about the laws and threatening to kick me arse, I'm still drinking that beer..and smiling. I finish the beer, hand the can to the slut and tell her to throw it away and step up on the porch with the 3 want-to-be gangsters. Still smiling I ask them to leave or I will "help" them to leave. Now my brother shows up. He sits in his truck , drinking his beer, laughing his arse off at me. I finally get feed up with all the threats and start walking in the rental. They try to stop me. I think at this point I might have stopped smiling. And after I explained to them that the contract states I can go in at anytime for a visual inspection they start rambling on about the laws again. So I grab two of the morons and drag them out in the yard, brother still drinking that beer, and dare them to say one more word. They stay put and the other one is just so big and bad he is going to tear me up...LOL Well, once he figures out all his mouth running hasn't stopped me from getting closer to him he walks in the rental. Leaving the lady that we rented to all by her self. I explained that I did not care for the #$%^ saying what they did to my son. I wasn't putting up with her or them. If they were not gone by the time I ate supper that night I would return and set every damn thing she owned in the parking lot.
I ate, walked out in my front yard and yeap, they were gone. A few weeks later my cousin stopped by and was talking to me and out of the rental door comes one of the morons with a broom stick or something. He stares at us as he swings and twirls the thing like we are suppose to be scared of him. I tell cuz to hold on a sec. I go in the house get a pistol and a empty can. I return to my yard and toss the can out in front of me & cus. The moron is still staring and twirling his stick. I flip the safety throw up on the can and shoot. He put his stick down and left. Haven't seen him since. And I ended up throwing the nice lady out over rent a few months later. Now my brother lives in that rental and I told him he could deal with the other 7 a while as I was tired of doing crap like that every other day. But what really pissed me off is she did not throw that can in the trash, she threw it in the yard. :doh2:
dont bury him in your yard theyll get suspicious. bury him next door so the neighbors get blaimed :biggrin: :eyebrownod:
LOL @ Danny :roflmao:
Well Danny, here in the liberal north east that would get me arrseted.
I did have some fun with him a few years agp. He wanted to go black powder hunting with me in the worst way. So, opening morning, I take him out and we set up one of my two man tent blinds. I give him a spot to watch and after 30 minutes all I hear him say is, "I hope it warms up some" This goes on for about 3 hours. Finally I tell him to go ahead and light a small fire in the blind. I told him to go out and gather some sticks and stuff and bring them back but to be quiet about it. I knew at this point that our morning hunt was over so no big deal. Well, mr. wixxard goes and gets some twigs and comes back and procedds to build the startings of a fire. When he is done, he says, "how do I light it?" So I says -
"pull out one of your speed loaders and dump a little black powder in there and then throw this match on it. I'm going out to take a pee."
Not 10 seconds later this puff of gray smoke comes rolling out the windows of the blind followed closely by Karl caughing and hacking all over the place. I almost died laughing. He never asked me to take him agan though.
Al
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:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: Now that woulda been good footage!
:roflmao: You two are killin me! :roflmao: I think I almost woulda payed to see those two scenes. :laugh2:
Al,
You are lucky you didn't lose the blind. But then again, it might have been worth it if all the contents went with it.
Jerry
That is funny stuff! I would love to have seen that guy come running out of all the smoke.
When I was a kid my Dad had a few rental properties. I remember going with him to repair all the stuff they broke. As I got older I realized that it was a pain in the ass for him to go fix all the stuff.
Needless to say he sold them all years ago, just not worth it.
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Ahh! The JOY of RENTING property to MORONS........... been there, done that, never again! This thread brings back not so fond memories. :holdon:
Legally she could have put me in jail. But I take my dads point of view when they start quoting law and telling me what they are "going" to do and set there shit in the parking lot. It's amazing how fast the law quoting stops when they come home to see everything sitting there and not enough room in the car to load it all. :biggrin:
Had one guy several years ago actually come to my moms house while me, two brothers a nephew and his friend were sitting there talking to mom. He had to have been on something as he started cussing my mother and pointing his little finger at us telling all of us that we were not going to do anything. Well, nephews friend, first time he had ever seen me or my mom, stands up and grabs the punk and out in the front yard they go. Long story short, he walked back to the rentals, called the cops, and as luck would have it the cop that shows up is a friend of the family. He toldd him he was lucky he could still walk after what he did and might want to move somewhere else. The nephews friend is now welcome around our place anytime.
Last time I saw the new friend we were at a bar, I was a little tipsy. Just a little mind ya, and I stood up on a table and told the whole bar me and this boy would whip every dang one of them. HE was in what looked to be a state of shock, but we never got any takers for some reason :confused: I left with my cop freind that night :innocentwhistle: In his cop car :innocentwhistle: Didn't get to ride home though :innocentwhistle: Still get yelled at about that one and they say I can't go back to that bar anymore :shrug:
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