Plumbing Who's Responsible

[Chris G.]

Recently I've changed the lease we've been using to make the tenant more responsible for "plumbing issues" it includes tenant being responsible for unclogging toilets, toilet flapper valve, and drain lines when foreign objects are found in them. Does this seem fair? For the previous leases that doesn't have this requirement and a tenant needs to have the toilet unclogged would charging them half for the plumber to go out seem reasonable since they could technically do it themselves.

The main reason for this change is recently a lot of tenants have had requests for unclogging toilets and drains and the plumber cost is high for these small jobs, I think the tenants could be held responsible or do it themselves in most cases.