Help with rouge customers

[cr0ft]

I'm not sure i think £80 is steep for what essentially was 2 visits. No idea about prices in Leeds though to be fair but down here that wouldn't cover 2 1 hour callouts I shouldn't think. I think it's priced quite fairly.

The one thing I've found is that the more I charge the better the quality of customer I get. (Touch wood) I've not had a single customer cause me problems with payment for the last 18 months, everyone pays on the day or within a few days by BACS and I would say I'm pretty much charging the top of the price range in my area. Because of this I don't do much (if any) work for landlords but that is fine as they are only interested in how much it costs to have a job done and (because they don't live at the house) are notorious for not paying/paying slowly. If I have to do work like that the tenant pays and they claim it back from the landlord. I don't seem to be doing much worse than the other plumbers financially either from what I hear.

 

[Dotty]

OR you could write off your losses and never have anything to do with him again.

Except writing a nice little letter to your local rag AND your MP explaining how this Landlord has tucked you up and how you want to prevent other tradesmen falling into the same trap!

Bad news is always halfway round the world before good news has its boots on!

 

[metaldust9]

£80 is not dear seen as you went late and stopped his house being flooded also was it a combi or gravity fed system i had one were i said £65 he said you £25 out lad i said ;see ye. couldnt by the bits for the price he reconed ad just lerarn from it mate and get metarials money up front or walk away

ps you could always wait till its dark and put concrete down his stop tap outside in the road after youve turned it off cost a bit more than what he owes you

 

[CES]

Id write it off and as Croppie has said,let him know that you'll be telling the guys down the merchants to stay away from him as he's a non-payer. Lets see how many local guys will answer the phone to him at 10pm again. These rogue landlords/agents should IMHO be 'no swearing' and burned, and not necessarily in that order...