The best tenant in the world has stopped up the garbage disposal for the second time in a month. The plumber I hire tells me it was pasta last week.
Those of you who rent, do you pay for unstopping the drain, or does the landlord?
… fixed typo in title —E
You are one lousy cook if you can stop up your disposal with pasta. 
And here I was expecting a rant about a network administrator.
So disappointing.
Hah! I’m going to start calling the IT guys here my lanlords.
Mea culpa.
Would an admin please change that title to “Evil Landlord”?
Last year he stopped it up pouring a pot of uneaten rise down the drain. 
It is a fifty year old house.
I’ve always rented and the place I lived before this place had notoriously bad plumbing. With only twelve one bedroom units, the landlady had to get a plumber out probably three or four times a year. She always paid for it, as far as I know. But then, she knew the state of the plumbing but couldn’t afford to overhaul the whole system. The plumber was a cheaper way to go.
Seems to me, in other buildings I’ve lived in, the owner always paid too.
Adding on, it sucks that a certain tenant keeps doing this. I wonder how to get it across to him that it can’t keep happening? And if it does, when it is acceptable to tell him he has to start paying for plumber himself?
The very questions I seek!
Have the plumber take out the disposal 
+1
Maybe you need to replace the disposal if it can’t handle pasta.
I thought you were seeking answers. Sorry.
Also, what was that “uneaten rise” you spoke of earlier? Something IT has made?
He’s a perfect tenant except for this.
But I like that!
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We are talking a bowlful. According to the plumber, whole pot full goes down instead of into the trash.
:dubious:
I phrased that badly, yes, those are the questions I would like answered.
I can’t type well this afternoon.
Last year the plumber reported to me that the tenant ran a bowl of rice down the disposal.
Sorry to pick on you. We all have typing issues sometimes.
I can see rice possibly stopping up the disposal, and maybe pasta if it was not cooked. But cooked pasta should go down even if it was a whole pan. I think maybe your plumber is one of those who thinks nothing much will go down a disposal without clogging it. That has not been my experience.
Landlord here.
I yanked all the disposals out of my units. Too much bullshit being put down the disposal, and calls about OMG stinky disposals. Rent “as is”-no disposal.
Perfect tenant? How long? Will he be OK if you take out the disposal? What does your lease say about clogs caused by tenant negligence? My tenants generally get 2 calls a year on me–soap scum, stray hair etc. You put crap down there that doesn’t belong, and my plumber tells me-it’s on you.
Some times tenants need a little education. In my darker moments, I have wondered how they got thru life thus far. Different subject for a different day.
Show him how to gradually, a little at a time, throw pans of crap in the disposal. I mean, seriously, he may not understand keeping the water running etc.
The second time in a month? Hmm…how old is the disposal? And before the first time this month, had there been trouble with the disposal before? For me, that would factor into the decision. If this was the second time overall, I’d probably absorb the cost, but I would make is very clear (in writing with the tenant signing off on it) that I wouldn’t cover any further repairs caused by food overloads, as verified by the plumber. If I needed to yank the disposal because it was too old, I’d be tempted to not replace it and compensate by lowering the rent by $5-10 per month.
But Hubs tells me that I’m too nice to our tenants. shrug
“But I should be able to throw anything down there, shouldn’t I? It’s a Dispose-All!”
Landlord. They had to come 4 times since we moved in in April.