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WWYD RE: Lawn mower and landlord
DH and I live in a rental house with a front and back yard that needs regular mowing. When we moved in here last August there was a power mower here that the owner said we could use. It's fine - old but DH has been able to fix minor things on it here and there to keep it running. We had to buy a couple, cheap parts for it this summer, which was fine. This past weekend it started spewing smoke and obviously needs to be taken in for repairs (or possibly the junkyard).
The owner lives out of state and he uses a property management company, but there's nothing in the lease about the mower, just that we're responsible for maintaining the property and all that. The owner is a nice guy and we've communicated several times via email and phone about other things. We don't want to buy a mower since we only plan on staying here through next August and I'm not sure if where we go next will have a yard that needs mowing. I'm also not too keen on paying a lot to fix this crappy mower but we will if we have to. Should I email the owner and ask him if he wants to pay for a new one or to fix this one? Or is that out of line? We don't have a price for fixing it yet, we'll take it in this weekend, but I'm just wondering how we should handle this. I guess I think he would want a working mower here at his rental so the yard doesn't get out of hand and it'll be available for any future renters. But, then again, he can always just throw up his hands and tell us we have to pay to fix it since we're responsible for "maintaining the property." FWIW, he often tells us we're the best renters he's ever had and we hardly every bug him about anything so I guess we're hoping there's some good will there.
Re: WWYD RE: Lawn mower and landlord
I would just ask him what he wants you to do and then asked to be reimbursed. That's what we do with our landlord.
Worst case scenarios is that he says no. Then you just go and buy yourself a lawnmower and then you'll always have one.
Our landlord lives overseas, so we have to take care of a lot of stuff, but they always reimburse us.
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