living in someone else's building
Monday, November 19, 2007Labels: apartment living
I'm beginning to sound like a broken record when I talk about living in the apartment. It's pretty much like one thing after another though... Friday night while playing the Wii we heard a knock at the door. The new downstairs neighbor and his dad came up to tell us our water heater was flooding the hallway and was creating a mini waterfall all the way downstairs. Well isn't that just neat?
The guy's dad turned off the water for us and they called the landlord. The new neighbor even vacuumed up the water in the hallway with his shopvac. Once the landlord got there I asked what was up. Of course, he acted like it was no big deal that WE DIDN'T HAVE HOT WATER. After he left we were pretty sure that it wouldn't be fixed until after the weekend.
My dad to the rescue! He agreed that if he owned the building he would have gotten someone out there to fix it asap. He worked for two hours on that stupid water heater and pipe. Josh and my dad had to drain water in it, replace pipe, do something with a blowtorch...but they fixed it. I was so thankful for my dad and that he was willing to do that.
Josh called the landlord to let him know that my dad fixed the water heater. He got his voicemail so he just left a message saying it was fixed and to expect a bill for my dad's time. I'm pretty sure that the landlord is going to be as happy as we are when we finally buy a house.
1 Comments:
Sounds like one I had in college. I lived in the attic apt. of an old Victorian house, and my first morning there I woke up to NO WATER. Nothing. And, of course, I had a job interview that day. Grrr... I finally figured out that it was because everyone in the house was trying to take a shower at the exact same time and so water wasn't ever making it to the top floor because it was being used on all the others. So when I told my landlord that, his suggestion was a SHOWER SCHEDULE!!! WHAT??? Are you stinking kidding me???
Anyhoo...thank goodness for dads and husbands!! My dad is the exact same way. And that is AWESOME that you are getting your landlord to pay him for his time. Good Call!!
Glad you have hot water!
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