tenant toilet plumbing damage

[Nancy Molinari]

Never ending tenant issues. I just renewed the lease another year for the tenants, yes, the same ones that brought bed bugs in but I thought it would financially be cheaper than going without rent for a month and repainting and cleaning that I footed 1/2 the bill for which by CT state law they could have forced me to pay the entire bill for. Their toilet just clogged and so of course, I had to get a plumber over there. Come to find out, there was too much of something stuffed into the toilet which the plumber will document on his bill that I have to pay $145.00 for.

Would your recommendation be to tell them that they need to pay for it or should I just tell them that if it happens again they will be responsible, or do something else?
I now have another year to go with these people because they just signed the lease again for 8/1/12 until 7/31/13 so now I worry about 12 more months of potential problems with.

Thanks for your advice in advance everyone, Nancy