7. Sends Around A Handyman Who Only Fulfils One Of Those Promises
A handyman's job is never done, usually because there's a good dozen cups of tea that need drinking in between wallpapering a room covered in blue-tac marks or fixing a loose pipe under the sink. Along with their ability to sniff out abandoned washing machines and furniture, landlords are unparalleled in finding the most feckless handymen going. Once again, it's all down to not wanting to spend any money. Who needs a dedicated plumber, electrician, DIY expert and/or decorator on retainer when you can just send round your mate from the pub? He definitely owns a tape measure, he can stand and look at a broken boiler for half an hour, shrug, and come home without doing anything to it. And all for the low low price of whatever that invoice he sent three months ago said! Even that's the best case scenario, with some student landlords opting to just fix stuff themselves. Handy Andy made it look easy to completely re-wire a Victorian terraced house. There's probably a YouTube tutorial out there. It'll just take two years...
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