Psyber wrote:Obviously I'm not on the ball as a landlord.
My tenants had a TV antenna problem which I had the agent send a tradie to fix last year, but it recurred recently as the wiring is a bit brittle. The repair guy quoted about $150 to replace the wiring, and, while doing it, move the antenna elsewhere where the signal is better. I said, "While he is at it get him to replace the old antenna with a proper digital one."
However, the agent and I are very firm that when tenants leave the house and garden has to be restored to the condition it was in when they moved in.
Bloody hell! Other landlords should take a lesson. All of mine have always insisted on fixing everything themselves. No, that's not entirely true, actually. Our current landlord is a good bloke; our dishwasher broke so he bought a new one, and every time something goes wrong with the plumbing he sends a plumber out. The first landlord I ever had - far out. Part of the roof fell down and he came to fix it. He got it right the second time, but nearly fell off and killed himself in the process. After four attempts at a blocked drain he finally got a plumber out, which if he'd done that to begin with would've saved us a few months of flooded bathrooms. The worst was when a heavy architrave fell completely off - it could have hurt or even killed any of us if we'd been standing below - and instead of getting it fixed, he came to have a look, went 'Bugger that, that's awful' and left. He was a nice guy but his DIY was a bit scary.