Telling my landlord the hot water is broken: Scheduling a plumber for repair

💬 ○○の人 is an easy way to name someone by their job when you don't know the proper word: ガスの人 "the gas person".

💬 呼びます (yobimasu) "call" means summoning someone to come over, not phoning them. For a phone call, Japanese uses 電話します instead.

🇯🇵 In Japanese rentals the landlord or management company normally arranges and pays for repairs to the building's equipment. Tenants shouldn't call a plumber themselves first.

💬 来てもらえますか asks "can I have them come?" and treats the visit as a favour done for you, so it's a polite way to make a request. Swap the verb: 見てもらえますか "Could you take a look?"

💬 午前 (gozen) "a.m." goes before the number: 午前十時 (gozen jūji). 十時 is (jūji), not (jūjii).

💬 Put any time or option before はどうですか and you've made a suggestion: 金曜日はどうですか "How about Friday?"

💬 Here は (said wa) sets the morning against the afternoon. It suggests "the morning's no good, though..." without having to say so.

🇯🇵 Simply stating that you're busy, rather than saying "no", is the usual soft way to turn down a time in Japan.

💬 ○○でもいいですか means "would ○○ be okay instead?" It's handy for proposing another option: 明日でもいいですか "Would tomorrow be okay?"

💬 午後 (gogo) "p.m." comes before the hour. 三時 is (sanji), and four o'clock is the odd one out: 四時 (yoji), not (yonji).

💬 じゃあ (jā) means "well then" and signals that you're moving to a new suggestion. It's the casual form of では.

💬 その means "that" and points to something just mentioned by the other person. この means "this", and あの is "that over there".

💬 います is used for people and animals being somewhere. For objects, use あります: 家にあります "It's at home".

💬 業者 is said (gyōsha), with a long (ō). It covers any outside service company, such as plumbers or movers.

💬 Adding ておきます to a verb means doing it ahead of time so it's ready. Another example: 予約しておきます "I'll book it in advance".

🇯🇵 This is the standard way to close a request. It thanks the person in advance and leaves things in their hands.

🇯🇵 This is the standard polite way to end a phone call with a landlord or business, and it is also said when leaving an office. さようなら would sound oddly final here.