THIS could be the most common maintenance expense for your investment property...

[Kenny Smith]

When thinking about what you'll be spending on maintenance each month, you start thinking about changing light bulbs, broken locks/door handles, painting, and can't forget, clogged drains.

Drain clogs can happen WAY more times than you'd like it to, and can start adding up quickly.  If you own a home older than 1980, it likely still has some type of cast iron or galvanized steel plumbing.  This type of plumbing is not good for your supposed "flushable wipes".  This is a big no no, and people flush these down our toilets more times than I can count.

However, since laying out signs in our bathrooms above the toilets stating NO WIPES or anything else besides toilet paper, we haven't had any issues.

Regardless, if you do run into issues, getting a plumber out to snake the line can be costly.  If this happens multiple times throughout the year, this could cost you, depending on the region of the country and accessibility to plumbers, anywhere from $150-$250 per visit.

To avoid this cost, we have purchased our own professional grade auger or "snake" for roughly the same price as one visit and can do it yourself.  Drain clogs can and most certainly will happen.  If you're a DIYer and simply don't want to have to rely on a plumber every time this happens, augers are very easy to operate and are a worthy investment for any investor.

Thanks for reading!

-Kenny