@David P. The tenants were never late on rent. To be fair, they are clean, polite and easy to talk to in person. I agree some of the repair requests are easy fix, but I am annoyed by the frequency and excessively long emails. It's like he would go around picking on things every month before paying rent. He insists on being at home when there's a repair. The constant difficulty to access the house really strike my nerve. He even asked us to send handyman on weekends because they "would always be home on weekends". The latest email on the deck and fridge is the last straw. Here's what he wrote:
"3. As mentioned previously, the back deck has severe rot throughout which has impacted the paint adhesion, in addition to the water-absorbent filler applied to areas of rot prior to the last painting. I noticed the other day a baluster/wooden-spindle that has no wood left on the inside for any support screws to hold on to. I haven't looked far beyond this to see if there are others at this stage of degradation. With two and six year old children in the home, I am concerned about unsecured posts and railing components on the deck. Additionally, the rot is beginning to reveal and push up some screw heads on the deck floor. I will go around and see if any of these can be driven back in to avoid someone catching/cutting their feet, though given the wood condition, there may not be much for the screws to attach to, and it would only be a temporary fix.
4. I have mentioned multiple times in the past the refridgerator's intermittent cooling and thawing behaviour. I first let you know about this in early December; then on Christmas it froze solid what we were planning to make for our holiday dinner. In January, it stopped cooling everything altogether and I had to throw out and restock everything in the fridge at a cost of ~$550. I also mentioned this again in March when inquiring about the intermittent ice machine behavior which I had let you know about in December as well. Beginning last week, some items in the fridge were partially frozen, and sometime between yesterday and this morning, things must have frozen again and thawed as there were pools of water and ice in the fridge. Strangely enough, the ice machine which your husband observed as broken and couldn't fix in March of this year, decided to start making ice again two weeks ago (though we no longer use the ice or water functions as they have either not been working, or have not been flushed from the water impacted by the Marshall Fire). Per our conversation when you were last at the house looking at the fridge, all of the door seals appear to work properly and there is no obstructed air circulation or items pushed against the walls or rear which would isolate freezing (each time freezing and thawing has occurred, it does so throughout the fridge, not just in one area). I unfortunately had to leave early this morning for work meetings and did not have time to go through the fridge entirely to see what is salvageable, and what has to be replaced. If you would like, I can search for possible remedies or components that can be replaced within the fridge (circuit board, thermostat, etc), though the unit is 17 years old and I'm not sure what parts may still be available."
@JD Martin I know I shouldn't let tenants buy appliance. but I was overseas and his email wording was serious. I am not entirely sure of his intention. I don't know he is documenting landlord actions for some reason.
