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youngheart49
Sep 11, 2010, 07:31 AM
My tenant wants us to go across town and change light bulbs and relight the pilot light on the furnace every year are we required to do these things?

JudyKayTee
Sep 11, 2010, 07:34 AM
What does the lease or rental agreement say?

I would not change light bulbs IF the tenant can easily reach the fixture. I WOULD relight the pilot light so the tenant doesn't blow your property sky high.

(I had a tenant who called me to relight her STOVE's pilot light.)

excon
Sep 11, 2010, 07:46 AM
Hello again, y:

Once is enough. I answered your question over there.

excon

JudyKayTee
Sep 11, 2010, 08:19 AM
Hello again, y:

Once is enough. I answered your question over there.

excon


Interesting - twice that the OP didn't like the answer so he reposted the question.

AK lawyer
Sep 11, 2010, 10:20 AM
... relight the pilot light on the furnace every year ...

Just curious: does the pilot light go out once a year for some reason?

Fr_Chuck
Sep 11, 2010, 10:24 AM
Yes, why is it going out or being turned off, normally they are just left on. Now as a landlord you should be doing an annual service to the heating and air system.

AK lawyer
Sep 11, 2010, 10:28 AM
Yes, why is it going out or being turned off, normally they are just left on. Now as a landlord you should be doing an annual service to the heating and air system.

Turning off the furnace every summer to save a few cents doesn't seem like a very good idea.

kalliereann
Sep 13, 2010, 12:35 AM
Is there a clause in the lease (assuming there is one) referring to small/non-habitability repairs?
Some management companies I've worked with will do these repairs, but charge the tenant a service fee of ~$75.

This also usually makes the tenant stop calling in things that they would otherwise repair anyway. Or things that do not need repairing to begin with.