[Porsche-O-Phile]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm rethinking this a bit. Although I can see the inherent fairness in paying for something I break, I'm not certain I "broke" anything and occasionally clogged bathtub drains are a fact of life when people live in a place. This SHOULD (IMHO) be factored into the routine maintenance costs that an owner expects to have to cover as a cost of doing businesses. I already arguably pay such costs in the form of my rental prices - and if I don't, then frankly I shouldn't be penalized because the LL (or his property management company, in this case) is too stupid to factor it in.

In actuality I'll probably pay it this one time only. Just to shut them up and make them go away. Mostly, I just want to be left alone to do my own thing here and want to stay "off the radar" with my property mangement people. I've found that typically no good can ever come from being ON their radar.

I pay considerably below market rate for this unit (at least before rental prices started falling around here, now I'd say it's just "below market", not "considerably below market). Places similar to mine in this area with two garage spaces are on the order of $400-ish more a month, typically. I'll suck up the 70 bucks this time, but I do appreciate the information. I'll definitely be printing that out and sticking it in my file for future reference.