When you move into a new apartment, you often play a game of landlord roulette. Sometimes, you’ll get a good one — a landlord with a reliable maintenance person who tackles requests quickly. Other times, you’ll get a lovely person who’s not quite ready for property management. They might respond to emergencies, but it takes forever to get a response whenever something small goes wrong. Then, when they do answer, they might try to fix the problem themselves, whether they know how to or not. I, unfortunately, have the latter.
So, when my bathroom sink began to leak like it was being tortured for information, I figured I had two options: Hope for the best from my landlord or learn a life skill and fix it for myself. I chose the latter but enlisted Gemini for some help along the way. Here’s how it went.