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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Hello and welcome! 

ApartmentManagerAdventures.com is all about the interesting things my wife and I experience as Apartment Managers of a 30+ unit apartment complex. This is not just any old apartment complex… this is an apartment complex IN ALASKA! Some days are completely normal and some days seem like they come right out of some crazy movie. There is never a lack of things happening to us for us to share.

In our posts, we take care to change the names of anyone involved in our stories to protect their privacy. The things we share here are real.

So join us as we share some of the funny, scary, amazing, and just plain strange things we’ve encountered here. And take a moment to comment on the articles, share your stories, or just let us know what you think!