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3) The[re] is a clause in the rental lease agreement that says tenant to pay first $70 of all repairs and service calls.[/quote]
A problem with this clause is that it gives the tenant an incentive not to report problems unless they are urgent. As a landlord, you actually want every minor issue to be fixed before they become larger and costlier to fix. I’m a landlord too, BTW.

[quote=flu]Me thinks tenant is SOL, and anything landlord does is at goodwill.[/quote]
What is SOL? I’ve searched online using ‘tenant,’ ‘landlord,’ etc., as keywords but no luck.

[quote=flu]Then again, to keep a tenant happy, might not be worth arguing over.[/quote]
If the tenant pays rent on time, and appears to keep the house generally clean and in good shape, then I’d just buy plenty of ant bait stations and deploy them myself. Good tenants deserve to be treated accordingly.