So, let me start off by saying I love my apartment. It's spacious and perfectly priced for the area we live in. We have more room than most of our friends for less money. I am going to say that it is an apartment in a two family house that we rent.
Now my frustration, our landlord is very laid back and very nonchalant about a lot of things. It can take her weeks to get things done that need to be taken care of by professionals and her idea of a professional is her jack of trades handyman who, when replacing our light switch in the kitchen, disabled the ceiling fan so it doesn't work at all. This was during the winter and needless to say, she still hasn't gotten him back to fix it.
We need an exterminator to come into our apartment, as gross as it sounds, it appears DH picked up bed bugs on his last business trip (he read reviews on the hotel when we realized what was going on and they had a bed bug issue in April and he was there in June). Its the only thing we can figure as to how we got them because our landlord doesn't. Well, I know as a tenant, the landlord is supposed to cover that expense (my parents were landlords and they covered that expense every time a tenant needed it, amongst other things). She wants to go half on it, fine whatever, I'm not going to argue because its a situation that needs to get taken care of ASAP.
Last night, while taking out the garbage, our neighbor called my husband over and walked him into their driveway, towards their backyard and showed him that either our or our landlords shower in leaking. It is leaking where our shower head would be, but I know with leaky pipes, water is going to go wherever the hole is, even if its 20ft. away. The neighbor wants to show our landlord what she sees, sometimes its just a trickle and others its like a waterfall. I know a plumber needs to come in and look because now I'm worried about mold and exactly where the leak is because what if the bathrooms need to be torn apart and redone just to fix. Not exactly something I'm looking forward to, but if I know her, she will try to get her handyman jack of all trades guy in here.
Her heater was leaking during the winter and it was coming through our ceiling and it took her two weeks to get her handyman in and fix it.
We have a dead outlet that we need an electrician to come in and fix and make sure everything is ok because before we moved in (last February) there was a leak from under the windows that couldn't get fixed until the snow had melted and everything dried, again, need an electrician, not her handyman. We rearranged the living room to make it flow better once baby gets here so the outlet is needed to plug the computer in.
Sorry for the long post, I'm just frustrated. I vented to my parents about it earlier because they came over to help me with the laundry since we have to wash all the clothes before the exterminator gets here on Friday. My dad suggested we look when the time closer to lease is up. But moving with a newborn is going to interesting, trying to find a space like this for this price is going to fun.
But I must agree with my parents, our landlord is horrible at keeping up the house. The rails on the stairs are so wobbly. My sister had foot surgery and she stopped coming to visit because she needs the railings for support to walk up and down stairs and she almost fell the last time she was here. The stairs are starting to fall apart. UGH!
Again, sorry for the long post and rant! I needed to get it out, especially since I want to talk to DH about it tonight. But with his job still up in the air, I don't know what the future holds.