Subject line: Do not EVER stay here unless you enjoy bailing raw sewage out of bathtubs for hours, experiencing intense stress, revulsion, anger, and helplessness, and getting charged for it! Details below.
Picture this: You and your friends haven’t seen each other in a while and are getting together to celebrate. The second day you’re there, despite the fact that you absolutely did not flush anything out of the ordinary, two of the three toilets fill up with water and are unable to be fixed, even with copious plunging. They’re still draining slowly, so you simply decide not to use them. The homeowner does not respond to your pleas for help. The next day, you call the homeowner and he says he is sending over the neighbor, who is a handyman, to fix it. The handyman never shows. Down to one toilet, you’re still doing okay. Then someone does laundry. All three toilets overflow, soaking some of your clothes with sewage water. This is clearly a DEEP, SYSTEMIC PLUMBING ISSUE. You call all three of the listed numbers for help, and no one answers any of them. Helpless. You decide to simply not use any water, and get through the last day of what was supposed to be a nice trip as unscathed as possible. Ha.
The next day, the handyman finally shows up, says he cannot fix it, and leaves. Then, more than two full days after informing the homeowner of the problem, he sends the woman who cleans the house with some industrial drano to fix the problem. She works on it for an hour and a half, and then leaves. “Thank goodness,” you think. “At last, the end is in sight.” IF ONLY. Instead of draining, all three toilets and both bathtubs begin to FILL WITH RAW SEWAGE AT AN ALARMING RATE. The cleaning woman is shocked and says there is nothing she can do to fix this. The homeowner is (again! unsurprisingly!) unresponsive. So, instead of having a nice dinner on your last day together, you and two friends realize the only way to keep human waste off of the floor until morning is to bail raw sewage out of the bathtubs. You find a large bucket and do this for the next hour. Once the bathtubs are clear, the toilets start filling up rapidly. You are barely able to clear all three toilets before they are at the brim again. Now I bet you’re thinking, “wow this is a really detailed hypothetical...did this happen to these renters?” Yes! It was truly one of the most disgusting and stressful experiences of our lives.
And somehow it continued to get worse from there.