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[quote=Anonymous]I have one for you OP.  I'm renting a TH that seems to have a lot of deferred maintence issues.  It's managed by a property company.  The washer died on us (it was very old, trust me) and it took a week (that's five days of not being able to do laundry with a family of four) to get owner approval to buy a new washer and schedule to have it installed.  I spent my afternoons (and lots of quarters) at the local laundromat.

The latest one that I'm still dealing with is a clogged pipe somewhere in the TH so that whenever we flushed a toilet, dirty shit water came up through a drain hole in the basement and flooded it.  We literally had three inches of fecal water.  It's taken six days to get owner permission to get a plumber out to find the clog (because we are not owners we could not schedule our own plumber) and fix it.  That's six days of not being able to flush a toilet (or deal with shit water in the basement), take a shower (again, the water came into the basement), do laundry, wash dishes, or do laundry.  We have tried out best to clean the water mess but it's disgusting.

So not all tenants are bad -- we were homeowners so we had the shop vac and snake to try to figure out the plumbing on our own but it was beyond our expertise.

There are some really awful landlords as well.[/quote]

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