What a piece of garbage.

22 years in this house, we’ve replaced a stove (can’t remember the brand) and a washer (Bosch). The fridge (Maytag), dishwasher (Bosch), dryer (Bosch), and microwave (GE) are still going strong (the microwave is probably closer to 30 years old).

The washer was the ol’ $900 motherboard issue, and the stove…can’t remember what happened with that.
 
Gone Hiking said:
This. I already anticipated such for the cheaper dryer in the one house, and simply bought an equivalent replacement that is already in the back of my wife's SUV. I was going to swap them out this weekend, but those tenants came down with whatever winter bug is going around and asked me to postpone it until they feel better My plan is to bring the old one back to diagnose in my own garage, and if it's worth fixing, then to order and install parts, and have my wife sell it online to recoup a little money. If it seems to be toast or expensive or too much of a headache, then I'll just have our junk guy pick it up.

The dishwasher I'll have to check out myself. (I suspect there's a clog or stuck bone or something based on what was described.) I always take a crack at repairing things myself first, and only if it's beyond what I can solve or will be a major PIA, do I call one of my contractors or repair guys. I was just over at that place last week, too, replacing a leaking garbage disposal, re-caulking the kitchen countertop, and installing a blackout blind. People think being a landlord is just about collecting checks, but it's more like being an HR person to vet applicants, plus going the extra mile to keep good tenants happy, while having an on-call side job, and having long, expensive, unseen periods of personal financial investment and risk, plus a ton of sweat equity and headaches when purchasing and renovating new properties... and we have invested a TON of personal sweat equity over the years. (I couldn't even begin to count the number of evenings and weekends.) But, Mrs. GH and I take a lot of pride in our properties and will only own and rent solid middle class houses to quality applicants, and we want nothing to do with being slum lords or anything related that would drive landlords there.
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Our daughter lisa was landlord of a flat..her phone number was on the 🤝 agreement. She said never again. People txt or rung all hrs of the day and night

Russ
 
rascal said:
Our daughter lisa was landlord of a flat..her phone number was on the 🤝 agreement. She said never again. People txt or rung all hrs of the day and night

Russ
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I can relate. I had one tenant who was an absolutely helpless, royal PIA. At least four times while she lived there, I had to drive over to show her how to reset a tripped GFCI outlet in the bathroom or flip a breaker. (Showing her once wasn't enough.) Twice I ran over to fix a window that "wouldn't latch" and had to explain to her like a child that was because the top sash had slid down 1/2" and she just needed to push it back up. Then there was a bee's nest on the shed that shed that she didn't use. When I suggested hitting it with some bee spray, she said she was too scared to do that, so that was another trip over. When the ice maker "wouldn't work", I had to show her that was because the ice cubes had frozen together in the ice hopper and all she needed to do is run some water in it in the sink, dump out the caked ice, and put the hopper back in the freezer. She couldn't even figure out how to use a plunger to unclog a toilet, so I got to take care of that as well. When she complained about the smoke detector chirping, rather than show her how to change the battery, since she'd apparently never done in her life, I just installed a new 10-year lithium battery smoke detector. But then the next call was her complaining that the new smoke detector had a green LED that stayed on all the time and kept her awake a night. That's how insufferable she was.

For a while, I was getting calls weekly about something that was "wrong" in the house because she was a complete idiot. It was ridiculous. I honestly don't know how she even wiped her own ass. She'd left her husband, who is a super nice guy and fishing buddy of mine (which is how we wound up with her), and yet HE was the one paying the rent, while she didn't work at all, which made no sense to me at first until I realized he was probably more than happy to pay it just to get rid of her. When she suddenly decided to break the lease early before her first year was up to move in with a new sugar daddy she'd just met who was 20 years her senior, we didn't contest it at all. We were both like, "Good riddance!" While fishing one day, her ex acknowledged that she was a nut job and actually thanked me for putting up with her BS, and said the only reason he had stayed in the relationship was for their kids' sake. That dude is a saint. Oddly enough, the current tenants in that house don't seem to have any of those problems.
 
The stove was replaced after a small light wouldn't go off. Here, things aren't fixed, they're just thrown out and replaced with a new one. :wink:
 
Yes. I live in a housing development where the housing authority considers electric stoves safer than gas ones. Gov't rule. Most new apartments have to go according to that rule. :wink:
 
Gone Hiking said:
I can relate. I had one tenant who was an absolutely helpless, royal PIA. At least four times while she lived there, I had to drive over to show her how to reset a tripped GFCI outlet in the bathroom or flip a breaker. (Showing her once wasn't enough.) Twice I ran over to fix a window that "wouldn't latch" and had to explain to her like a child that was because the top sash had slid down 1/2" and she just needed to push it back up. Then there was a bee's nest on the shed that shed that she didn't use. When I suggested hitting it with some bee spray, she said she was too scared to do that, so that was another trip over. When the ice maker "wouldn't work", I had to show her that was because the ice cubes had frozen together in the ice hopper and all she needed to do is run some water in it in the sink, dump out the caked ice, and put the hopper back in the freezer. She couldn't even figure out how to use a plunger to unclog a toilet, so I got to take care of that as well. When she complained about the smoke detector chirping, rather than show her how to change the battery, since she'd apparently never done in her life, I just installed a new 10-year lithium battery smoke detector. But then the next call was her complaining that the new smoke detector had a green LED that stayed on all the time and kept her awake a night. That's how insufferable she was.

For a while, I was getting calls weekly about something that was "wrong" in the house because she was a complete idiot. It was ridiculous. I honestly don't know how she even wiped her own ass. She'd left her husband, who is a super nice guy and fishing buddy of mine (which is how we wound up with her), and yet HE was the one paying the rent, while she didn't work at all, which made no sense to me at first until I realized he was probably more than happy to pay it just to get rid of her. When she suddenly decided to break the lease early before her first year was up to move in with a new sugar daddy she'd just met who was 20 years her senior, we didn't contest it at all. We were both like, "Good riddance!" While fishing one day, her ex acknowledged that she was a nut job and actually thanked me for putting up with her BS, and said the only reason he had stayed in the relationship was for their kids' sake. That dude is a saint. Oddly enough, the current tenants in that house don't seem to have any of those problems.
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I used to work for a friend who owned a pizzeria and helped him get it off the ground with the menu and stuff like that; it was a husband and wife thing. They had a side hustle of owning some places that they rented out to tenants (legal) and they said they absolutely hated it and tried everything to get out of that responsibility because 9 out of 10 tenants were complete subhuman garbage and would exploit a loophole where basically, they would not pay their rent and get taken to court and the court had to grant them a certain amount of time to get the money and they would just exploit that loop hole every time so they could live there for free but never actually pay. So they were responsible for the properties but never got money from tenants to pay for upkeep, so it was inevitably bleeding them dry, slowly.

I'm paraphrasing the situation, as I don't know the actual legalities or even if they still exist to this day, but they at least used to.
 
GadgetGuy said:
Yes. I live in a housing development where the housing authority considers electric stoves safer than gas ones. Gov't rule. Most new apartments have to go according to that rule. :wink:
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Yes my daughter’s ex-roommate just signed up for a new apartment. All electric.
 
Puggles said:
I used to work for a friend who owned a pizzeria and helped him get it off the ground with the menu and stuff like that; it was a husband and wife thing. They had a side hustle of owning some places that they rented out to tenants (legal) and they said they absolutely hated it and tried everything to get out of that responsibility because 9 out of 10 tenants were complete subhuman garbage and would exploit a loophole where basically, they would not pay their rent and get taken to court and the court had to grant them a certain amount of time to get the money and they would just exploit that loop hole every time so they could live there for free but never actually pay. So they were responsible for the properties but never got money from tenants to pay for upkeep, so it was inevitably bleeding them dry, slowly.

I'm paraphrasing the situation, as I don't know the actual legalities or even if they still exist to this day, but they at least used to.
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Especially during COVID, that’s what my manager told me.
 
Puggles said:
Now it costs $100 just to fill that car nowadays......that doesn't seem right.
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You make more nowadays, all the minimum wages have gone-up,
Back in 1976 I bought a brand new car Mustang Mach 2 for $4,500, my first car, I was working at a bank that’s how I could qualify for the loan, but my wage was $3.25 an hour, not minimum wage at the time.
I don’t know where you get $100 car from.
 
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