新地主疑问: Can tenant deduct material and his own labor cost from re

My tenant recently made 3 repairs himself. I agreed with 2 of these before and didn't know about the 3rd one (he didn't notify me and just fixed it himself). Now he just went ahead and deducted the cost of the material and his own labor charge (he charges me $20 per hour) for all of these 3 repairs from this month's rent. I am very unhappy about it because he didn't notify me about the third repair and I haven't even have chance to evaluate his request and agree to reimburse the repair chage. Also, I don't know if it is proper for him to charge me the labor fee since he didn't tell me advance that he would charge me his labor and he just decided on the rate himself without my prior agreement, etc.

Anybody have any ideas for me? How should I respond to him? I really worry that he gonna just do this again and again without respecting my right. Also, do you think it is right for him to charge me his own labor cost?

Thanks in advance!

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• no, never let your tenant do that. -planotx- ♂ (147 bytes) () 05/07/2013 postreply 17:59:34

• I think it would save you lots of trouble if the tenants can rep -tiantianma- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/07/2013 postreply 21:24:12

• 回复：I think it would save you lots of trouble if the tenants can -tiantianma- ♀ (317 bytes) () 05/07/2013 postreply 21:26:31

• 凭收据可以出材料钱，尽量不出工钱，否则有越来越多“需要”修理的东西了 -d41515- ♂ (31 bytes) () 05/07/2013 postreply 21:48:20

• If it is not a big amount, OK that for this time but warning him -南方燕子- ♀ (93 bytes) () 05/07/2013 postreply 22:49:20

• 材料费可以报销，labor 费下不为例 -凌长老- ♂ (56 bytes) () 05/08/2013 postreply 07:45:33