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0 pointsjtheory12y ago0 comments

Yes -- which means you have to find someone to do that for you, and figure out if they're asking the right price for their services. Then you need to keep track of how well they're doing it.

If they do a poor job by doing too little maintenance, your renter will let you know about it.

If they do a poor job by doing unneeded or unimportant maintenance, and/or charging you too much for the tasks they're doing, your renter will be perfectly happy... so how will you know?

Granted, it's important not to obsess about this stuff -- if they're cheating you just a little bit, it's not worth worrying about. But if you don't know what you're doing, they may be able to cheat you pretty seriously, and you won't know.

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LaGrange12y ago

They can also screw up horrifyingly in a way that will bite you a year or two down the line once someone hooks up a washing machine and refrigerator to those power sockets and everything goes down in flames (or, more likely, just takes down every single fuse until the one out in the street).

dllthomas12y ago

You'd have to treat it like any other professional you're hiring where you lack expert knowledge. And yes, there is some risk - I was just pointing out that becoming a domain expert is not your only option.

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