• @Hikermick
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    17 hours 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.

    • @davidagain
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      55 hours 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      02 hours 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?

    • @vxx
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      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.

    • @JustARaccoon
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      914 hours ago

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

    • jibbist
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      2117 hours ago

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

      • @Hikermick
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        -2116 hours ago

        Own a house then get back to me

        • @[email protected]
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          1816 hours 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
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            -1113 hours 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.

            • AnyOldName3
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              34 hours 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.

            • @davidagain
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              56 hours ago

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

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

        • jibbist
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          1216 hours ago

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

          • @Hikermick
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            -1816 hours ago

            Your comment doesn’t make sense and is confusing. Are you AI?

            • @[email protected]
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              613 hours ago

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

              • @Hikermick
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                -312 hours 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

                • @[email protected]
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                  412 hours ago

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

                  • @[email protected]
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                    05 hours ago

                    I challenge anyone to disconnect the water feed, remove the top part of the siphon, remove the likely rusted manky bolts holding the cistern, remove the bottom part of the siphon, clean the whole lot up where the foam ring has turned to mush, remove the old filler mechanism, replace it, plus the siphon, bolt the cistern back to the toilet, reconnect water supply, adjust fill height of both the siphon and the filler, then install the push button and test. Then clean up behind yourself

                    In ten minutes 😂

                    Bear in mind the guy you’re speaking to is a yank and their plumbing makes the fucking Roman bathhouses look modern lmao