Good Deed Done!

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished! I know that, and yet I did a good deed for one of my tenants today anyway. I'm now awaiting the inevitable punishment.

This tenant has been quite ill and has been in the hospital and nursing home for nearly 2 months. She nearly died from a severe bout of pneumonia and the complications that occurred as a result of that. She is now so weak and has so much lung damage, that she is barely able to walk and can't even climb a single step safely. There is one step at her apartment and I built a ramp to allow her to be mobile with a walker. In addition, she needed her couch elevated to make it easier for her to get up from the couch, so I built some platforms to elevate each leg of the couch several inches.

I also received a call from one of my tenants today about a leaking sink. This should have been a 5 minute repair, but ended up being a 45 minute pain in the butt. The sink was leaking from the top of the tail piece just under the sink. I tried tightening up the washer that holds the rubber gasket against the bottom of the sink. That SHOULD have fixed it, but didn't. I took it completely apart; put new plumber's putty under the lip of the drain piece; and reinstalled the tailpiece - all to no avail. In fact, after I did all that, it was leaking worse than before.

So, I went to my storeroom and picked up an entirely new tailpiece. Back at the apartment, I had it installed in a few minutes and it was finally right - NO LEAKS!

Finally, I did a little painting at one of my one bedroom apartments. That was it for today!