'Guess whose sink was fixed within 48 hours?': Tenant stops doing favors for his landlord after his maintenance requests get ignored for months, ends up getting his apartment fixed lickety-split

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 13, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

A landlord doesn't realize the gravity of his tenant's apartment repair requests, so the tenant does something to catch his attention. After months of getting his maintenance requests denied, this tenant decided to stop doing favors for a guy who could barely return his texts. I guess that means this landlord wouldn't be receiving any of his packages anymore because it was always the tenant playing the middle man with the mail carrier.

Well, not anymore.

Landlords are an entitled bunch. Likely purchasing their painted-white cash cow apartment for the low, low price of two stones and a handshake, landlords forget what it's like to PAY to live somewhere. Luckily for us renters, however, we do wield a small amount of power over the lords of the land, because when something goes wrong, like a leaky sink or a tear in the carpet, it's not on us to get it fixed. Suddenly the landlord actually has to do something for a change, especially if it affects them directly.

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  • Landlord ignored my maintenance requests, so I stopped his packages babysitting
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  • I rent in a small building where my landlord also lives upstairs. For months I'd been asking him to fix a leaking sink in my kitchen.
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  • It wasn't just a drip it was bad enough that I had to keep a bucket underneath and empty it every day.
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  • I texted, emailed, and even reminded him in person. Every time, he brushed me off with, *"*I'll get to it soon, it's not urgent*."*
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  • Meanwhile, the leak kept getting worse. Here's the kicker: delivery drivers constantly rang my bell because he was never home to sign for his packages.
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  • Out of kindness, I always accepted them and left them safely in the hallway for him. Sometimes it was small stuff, but other times it was expensive equipment and big boxes.
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  • One day, after yet another ignored message about my sink, I decided: **not my problem anymore.** The next week, I stopped answering the door.
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  • Delivery drivers left "missed delivery" slips, and a couple of his packages got sent back to the depot.
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  • He was *furious* and asked why I didn't take them in. I just smiled and said, *"*Oh, I figured since my sink leak wasn't urgent, your deliveries weren't either*."*
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  • Guess whose sink was fixed within 48 hours?
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  • Independent-Song2963 Brilliantly petty and honestly, fair. Sometimes the only way to get action is to treat their priorities like they treat yours. Well played.
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  • _Taft_ . If you have a landlord or property management who is not responding to needed maintenance issues, contact your city inspector and file a complaint. Your city inspectors office is there to help you.
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