[quote=edna_mode]Beware sunk cost accounting!
While I’m sure that rectifying this provides priceless satisfaction, at the rate you stated ($280/hr), you have likely already spent $400 worth of your leisure time just posting about this on Piggington.
If it helped save you the cost of therapy, great.
However, beware not just throwing good money after bad, but good *time* after bad. You can’t get your precious hours back. Is there something you do that would help you get focused on the future, to help let this go?[/quote]
Remodeling your home that you just moved into is the perfect solution…You’ll be so busy on your new home, and you’ll be spending so much on your new home, you’ll quickly forget about the $400 from the landlord. 🙂
Trust me, you’ll want to be pretty knowledgeable and have your trusty handymans lined up or quickly learn how to do things yourself. $75 to change a faucet excluding the cost of the faucet. $75 to change a garbage disposal… A couple of hundred to change the water heater, plus the stupid license. $300 to replace a A/C capacitor if you have a/c and don’t know how to do it yourself. But the biggest ripoffs? Appliance repair.
But OP, you’re in luck. You see, although I could have hired someone to do most of the repair work in the past, being the typical stubbornly arrogant engineer as I am, I refused to accept defeat…My famous last words? “Come on! For an engineer, how hard could this be?”…..All the way to the time time I replaced my oven’s logic board forgetting to shut off the power and accidentally dropping a screwdriver on the two live 220V A/C wires. Well, at least my circuit breaker worked…:( But seriously, if you ask, chances are I’ve dealt with it.
