to get annoyed with tenant moaning about a dripping tap?

[Miffles]

Ok. So the kitchen tap drips. We asked the plumber to go out and he said he'd sorted it. Tenant texts to say it's still bad. So my DH goes out and changes the washer. She texts saying it's still dripping and even worse.

I struggle to be really sympathetic. It's a flipping dripping tap! I've now text her to say my DH will deal with it (means a new tap, I think) but it's not going to be immediately due to work commitments. Told her to shut the kitchen door if the noise annoys her and I'll give her some cash if the money worries her.

Sorry - I needed to vent. Having a bad day with a few bigger personal issues than just a dripping tap.

AIBU?

magic - I sued the bitch.

YABU.

Our bathroom tap was dripping for weeks before DH finally got up and did something about it, by which time it had damaged the enamel bath.

It's your responsibility to fix it, so just do it and stop whinging.

As a landlord, I'd want to get a dripping tap fixed asap (and we do in our own house). The reason for that is not just that a dripping tap can be annoying, it's avoiding a possibly costly problem as well as establishing a relationship between us and our tenants so that they feel happy to tell us when there's an issue.

Recently, one of our tenants reported what looked like a tiny but intermittent drip coming from the ceiling of the kitchen. We got someone in who traced the problem and tightened up a connection in the water pipe. If all that hadn't happened, the consequence could have been a much bigger bill for hacking off and replacing the damaged plaster.

It is our property, but it's also the tenants' home for as long as they live there.

However, OP, sometimes tenants have a backstory of previous experiences of uncaring landlords which can make them appear to be demanding/belligerent.

Provided it's done within 2-3 days, then YANBU. It's got to be done,but you don;t have to stop everything in your life to leap to it. Tell her to pop a washcloth under it to deaden the annoying noise, and offer to cover a tenner or so of her water bill.

Wow, I'm glad you've realised YABU, because you are being horribly unreasonable. Your tenant asks something perfectly acceptable and you get annoyed and bitch on MN about it.

Dripping taps are v annoying. They sound like thunder at night.

One of the advantages of renting is that someone else is responsible for the upkeep in return for you paying them a huge wad of cash. Over to you, miffles.

AH. Miffles set out on her steed to Fix Things a long time ago.

They're paying for somewhere that's up to date with repairs... they're paying for a house that doesn't have a dripping tap.

It's utterly crap being at the mercy of a landlord who doesn't want to do repairs. It's your home - yet you're not allowed to decorate, have to keep the place tip-top for inspections - but if something breaks... no chance and you're made to feel unreasonable for asking politely for it to be done (in some cases). It wears you down in the end to be honest - you're always praying for things NOT to go wrong, because if they do... they won't be put right.

It's incredibly stressful, especially when you're trying to be a good tenant and notify of things BEFORE they become a bigger problem. We've called ours up several times "moaning" about one thing - our front door is, basically, shot. The wood's got no strength left in it to support the joins keeping it in a rectangular shape, so it drops to a parallelogram over a few months, drags on the bottom of the frame and the door lock and hole the sticky out bit of the lock goes into end up out of sync so it doesn't lock. The leaded glass panel on it is also bowed out, with gaps in the actual glass and I worry it'll fall out completely onto someone soon (I've actually suggested he gets some perspex cut and sandwiches the glass in for safety's sake if he continues to refuse to replace the door). I've told him the door's knackered, the repairman who has rebuilt the door five times last year (I'm not exaggerating here) has told him it's knackered - he dismisses it as moaning and refuses to replace it.

Might be "that tenant bleating on about the front door to him" - but to me it's heating bills, an insecure house, and the potential of being injured. His loss - we've had enough and we're buying somewhere so we're not at the mercy of landlords painting us as unreasonable for wanting to keep the place in the nick we took it on in (he also complained I was moaning when I mentioned a damp patch appearing at the top of a bedroom wall... I rang it in early to warn him and protect HIS investment - he ignored it as moaning, ended up with water pouring from a burst tank in the loft - which incidentally managed to damage clothes I had in the fitted wardrobes, which I just accepted and didn't moan to him about).

His loss - he's lost good, reliable, prompt paying tenants.

I'd be more worried that 2 people have independently "fixed it", but according to tenant it's not.

I'm sorry, but you'd really have to be very inobservant/incompetent to not tell whether a tap is or is not still dripping after having just fixed it.

She's not one of these people who employ a "bionic grip" on taps, by any chance ?
That fucks up taps pretty effectively

YABU, Dripping taps are very anoying. It is your prperty and you should sort out a driping tap as soon as posible.

YABU, Like another poster has said they are paying your mortgage. It is down to you to keep the property in good order.

YABU. Get it fixed or it might cost you much more in the long run.

When we rented many years ago we also reported a dripping tap to our landlord several times who made half arsed attempts to get it fixed. In the mean time we gave notice as we had bought a house nearby so the dripping tap became less of a problem. One day when we were out at work the dripping tap turned into a water torrent which destroyed the bathroom and the dining room and kitchen below. Fortunately all our possessions were packed up in the living room ready for us to move out but those three rooms were wrecked.

Sadly for him the landlord mistakenly thought that we - the tenants - should have buildings insurance rather than him. Not our building so why would we lol? Clearly he tried to scam us into paying but failed. Cost him an awful lot of money to get it all put right - particularly as we could prove that we had repeatedly reported the problem with the tap. Get it sorted or it really might cost you a hell of a lot more than an hour of a plumber's time.

Glad you're not my landlord.

She has complained about it & it hasn't been fixed properly. It isn't about money, or the annoyance of the noise it creates.

I am sure if she had broken something in your property, you'd want her to get it fixed properly.

YABVU - dripping tap wrong on so many levels, annoyance & water wastage being the top 2! Sort it out!