Only getting back half

United States
December 1, 2008 8:51am CST
Well our furnace went last week and Mike talked to the landlord about it who was to have someone come on Wednesday to look at it. Well he never showed up and then the landlord went out of town for the holiday. Finally on Friday I had enough and I called someone to come look at it. I was just oging to give the bill to the landlord and have him pay for it. I wasn't going to wait until he came back and called his guy again. It was cold and we pay rent there. Mike got a hold of him that afternoon and I guess there is a clause in his lease that says he pays half for all repairs so we are only getting half back. All it was was there was some carbon build up on some part of the furnace that keeps the burner lit and it cost $98.50!!! I still think that's stupid and we shouldnt have to pay for that. He owns the building its not fair to dump that on us. It's not like we broke it.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
1 Dec 08
That stinks that you are only getting half back on the repair on the furnace. I have never seen that kind of clause in a lease before. I guess I will have to look really close the next time I sign a lease on a place.
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• United States
1 Dec 08
yeah well, we live where my husband works which is a rest home and one of the furnaces in one of the trailers went and Mike's boss does have to pay for all of that and it was like $200. So I laughed when he told me that.