Comment by m463

I remember renting a house once and the gas water heater went out. The landlord replaced it... with another cheap-ass gas water heater with a pilot light.

"they're more reliable" he said

maybe he's right, but it definitely used more gas which he didn't pay for.

EDIT: oh wait, we had a gas heater problem too. It wouldn't heat the house. (same landlord) When the service guy came over, he tried working on it, but eventually threw a huge fit. <LandLord> this is a piece of crap, it is the original heater from the house, too old and decrepit to get going again. You just have to replace it.

I think the service guy was actually a decent, upstanding guy and he knew what he was doing.

Landlord put in a new heating system, and lo and behold... the house actually got warm easily and the gas bill dropped over half.