I waited 8 weeks for a landlord to fix a toilet that was making a weird noise

A few years back I rented a place in Columbus and the toilet started making this low humming sound every time you flushed it. I told the landlord about it and he said it was probably just the pipes settling and to give it a week. A week passed, the noise got louder, and I called him again. He sent a handyman who poked at it for 20 minutes and said he'd have to order a part. That part took 3 weeks to show up. Then the handyman came back, installed something wrong, and the toilet started leaking water onto the floor. Another month went by before the landlord finally hired a real plumber who fixed it in one afternoon. The whole thing was just a simple flapper valve issue that cost maybe fifteen bucks. Has anyone else had a landlord drag out a tiny repair into a multi month headache?

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2 Comments

sanchez.mia28d ago

Landlords love dragging out cheap fixes for months.

david82127d ago

Agree with @sanchez.mia, they always drag their feet on the cheap stuff.