monkey nonsense

our A/C is broken again. maybe i should say still broken from when we moved in. last year when we moved in july, the A/C was blowing out warm air. i actually got sick and threw up (maybe because of taco bell… maybe because of the heat). the A/C repairman came and ended up just turning on the master switch, which we were unaware of. however, he didn’t bother staying to make sure the system was running properly. periodically, i could almost swear that our A/C was blowing out lukewarm air instead of cool air. but it was difficult to tell.

today, after the A/C went hot on us again (it went hot on us a weeks ago, but simply turning the master switch off and on again seemed to fix it), the repairman came and took a look. basically a LOT is broken in our A/C unit. something about a faulty blower, shorted transformer, yada yada… so now we’re without A/C for a few more days.

i think i’m going to be glad to go back to managed apartments… i had a good experience privately renting at the townhouse (even if it did have mice, the landlord was responsive and most importantly, competent!)… but renting at this condo… the landlord is somewhat responsive (she eventually replies) but isn’t very competent… she’ll start rambling about her eye surgery or her teeth or something or rather. a five minute conversation can drag into 30 minutes. it’s gotten to the point that we’d rather directly contact whoever we need rather than go through her. which causes it’s own problems… we end up saving her a lot of hassle, but inconveniencing ourselves, because we just don’t want to deal with her…

i like managed properties when they respond in a timely matter to your maintenance needs… and where you just need to give them permission to enter your property and don’t need to physically be sitting in the heat waiting for the A/C repairman to arrive… even if they do kick you out of your apartment because they think they can make a fortune converting them into condos… only to have the condos go unsold… suckers