Tenant vs Tenant Agreement

[Lydia Bolling]

Hey Everyone. This is my first question so “Thank you” in advance. Issue: I have a Plumbing Portion of my lease agreement that states that the tenant is responsible for the internal plumbing and the landlord is responsible for the external plumbing (from the wall to the outside). Obviously the tenant was fine with this at signing, but calls repeatedly about repairing a leaking sink and toilet chain. She no longer thinks that is her responsibility and has tried to report me to the Housing Authority (Section 8) property. They are on my side because we have had great inspections with no issues and I turned in the Plumbing Attestment with the lease when we recorded the lease with them in the beginning. I have a second house we are rehabbing across the street from the property as well which I feel leave me at risk for retaliation. I am not going to renew her lease in February. Would you fix the issue?

[Kyle J.]

I would fix it. The alternative is your tenant likely won’t fix it and you run the risk if a simple leak that would probably cost you a few bucks to fix, going unfixed and continuing to leak and you end up with a much bigger problem and a lot more damage that ultimately costs you much more to fix down the road.