Apartment Manager Adventures

Hello everyone,

Enforcer here. I think I have mentioned that I pretty much do all of the maintenance of this building, which varies greatly. I am amazed at the things that can go wrong in an apartment or house. It keeps me busy, that is for sure. One benefit to all these problems I see and fix in peoples apartments is that I have become very familiar with the common problems and over time become proficient at solving them. (I often have tenants comment on how I know exactly where to go and what to do to solve various problems) There are also a lot of little tricks I pick up here and there over time.

Looking at the searches people are using to find this site it appears that some of you are interested in learning to repair common household things, or may be interested in little tips that help things run a little more smoothly, so I’ve decided to start a new category on the site called “Quick Tips”. Within this category, I will be sharing the secrets and little things that you can do to make things in your home work better, or things you can do when working on common problems in the home to make the job easier.

So, today, my Quick Tip is involving any kind of wooden furniture that has drawers without wheels or rails in them. (The common, wood on wood slide out drawers.)

These drawers can often become stubborn and refuse to slide open and closed smoothly…

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This is going to be brief, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we have added a fun little map at the bottom of the page that will show where people are visiting our site from. The map will be updated once a day and you will see yellow dots that show roughly where our readers are viewing the site from.

So take a moment and just scroll down to the very bottom of any page on the website to see where our readers are coming from.

UPDATE: Just for clarification to everyone, the map only shows the current days visitors, so you will only see dots for the people visiting the same day as you.

We have been getting a lot of visitors looking at our picture of the big snow truck picture on our “Snow removal in Alaska… always a wonderful experience!” article. So, I thought you all might like to see a video of one of these beasts in action! Enjoy.