The common symptoms here are water backing up from the bathtub, toilet and sinks in the garden unit.

But that's only half the story, the pipes for the bathrooms run behind tiled walls, if I rip the pipes out, I would have to rip out tiles, as also, move the toilets and bathtubs, in other words, 3 new bathrooms.

So the joists were cut and a bathtub was put on top!!

We needed to do some major rehab to the other rental because they had a crack in the bathtub and never told us, which caused water damage to the subfloor including the kitchen that was on the other side of the wall.

Now if only I could stop the "Gel Queen" from jamming the old bath tub P-trap with coagulated hair & gel it would be amazing accomplishment.

To make a long story short, we had to tear out the bathtub wall surround area, because the water lines were leaking.

., but not any complicated electrical or plumbing, and my drywall skills aren't great either.The buckets and barrel in the bath tub really confused me as well - I have no idea what was going on in there.