We bought a house for a rental about 15 yrs ago or so. Some of the repairs/fixes/"upates" they did were beyond the pale.

There is a shed in the back yard (it was well built) but they decided to put a awning/roof around it. I would estimate that there were roughly 1,000 fasteners used for this and they varied from screws of all lengths to nails of all lengths (whatever was laying around at the time). I guess they thought it 1 fastener is good, 50 must be better. There were rafters that were spliced and not even attached to anything at either or both ends. There were posts that were just standing there, some were not on foundations. How it remained attached for as long as it did no one knows.

There must have been a deaf person living there at one time. They "installed" a smoke detector with a flashing light on it in the hall way. Instead of going in the attic and installing a junction box for the power supply to be spliced into, they put it on the wall in the hall, punched (with a fist or hammer) a hole through the wall to the bedroom on the hall, fished an extension cord through the hole and plugged it in. The extension cor was cut and taped to the power line on the detector.

In the laundry room, they did not have power on the wall so again, a hole seemed like the most practical solution. Have hammer.....make hole. Done.

Got a call from the tenant the other day that the drain was clogged. Called my plumber out and he an a snake through it...pulled out some roots. Damn...house was built in '68 so he figured it was clay or iron pipe and it just broke down over the course of almost 60 yrs. Nope.....the previous idiots replaced the drain but they used schd 20 v 40 pipe and it just failed early. The also at some point just cut a rectangular hole in the top of the drain and instead of cutting the pipe, putting a sleeve on it and doing a proper repair, they cut a larger rectangular piece and laid it over the hole....no glue, just laid it there. They also moved a water line for a faucet. The "clean out" they put in was in the way so they just bent the copper water pipe around the clean out and left the faucet sticking out of the ground free standing with no reinforcement.

How someone does work like this and thinks 'Yup...nailed it' is absolutely beyond me. I want to meet them and rub their nose in it asking WTF was going through your mind?

All the drain/faucet stuff is getting fixed today to the tune of $4500. Its days like this where I hate being a landlord.

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