Tried to take a nap earlier and got to thinking, problems with apartments lived

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In. Instead of sleeping, I was thinking. My mind wandered through time, to all the places that we've rented over the years, and the problems that have come with them. In 2005, we moved to a basement apartment. The day we moved in, the guys broke the screen door window trying to move something in. Some time later, when we wanted cable or something, the technician cut off the landlord's phone and his wife was furious. The furnace broke down, and they complained about paying $10 grand to replace it. Hey, not our fault they paid so much. In 2006 we moved to a small house with annoying neighbors. The guy would have kids over on the weekend and have them banging on the drums, waking us up constantly. The furnace died and had to be replaced. The tech said that there was a fire in the main switch. This wasn't our fault, but we were blamed for it. Then I woke up one morning to the sound of water. The kitchen was flooding due to the roof leaking. The roof had been reshingled, but the idiots did a bad job. The floor in the kitchen cracked because of the water. The landlady pulled out flowers that I'd planted in the front of the house, she stated that they were weeds. The neighbor's wife next door set the fence on fire, blaming our bbq, which we hadn't used in days. We left the place an absolute mess, nevermind the worst things we did before leaving. An 11th hour move in late 2007 brought us to another basement apartment. The landlady was terrified of the hamsters we had, didn't really want pets in the apartment, but allowed the 2 cats we had. At one point, we started smelling rotten eggs, every time the sinks gurgled. This was horrible, it happened quite a few times a week. We realized that the kitchen sink was starting to back up when this happened. It never got very far, but one day we were faced with a flooded kitchen when the sink refused to drain after backing up. Ugh, what a mess. When we went to move, we couldn't get the couch up the stairs, couldn't get it around the corner. We lost a good couch that day, had to use a hack saw on it, just to make it flexible to move outside. We moved to another basement apartment in 2009. Nice and warm, so we thought, and quiet too. This was not meant to be. The surround sound was so loud that it vibrated our walls. Shortly after moving in there, a large tree branch fell on my car in the backyard. The guys were out there drinking, and one of them had gone by the car when the branch fell down. He was lucky it didn't hit him. The landlady would have paid for the repair to the van, but i never bothered getting it fixed. Shortly before moving out, we discovered a ton of video tapes and their boxes destroyed by termites. That was the last straw, even though we were already being tossed out of there. The great thing was that when we moved, we moved across the laneway, so we could walk everything over to the new apartment. This was in September of 2009. Shortly after moving in there, we wanted heat, but couldn't get it. Excuses abound for almost 2 months before we got heat. The landlord had promised a custom closet, which never got built. He promised a window in one room, but never got around to it. Then there were the parking issues that he never got around to dealing with, and caused me lots of problems. I was glad when we moved out of there and came to the house we're now in. But it's not without it's share of problems. The ceiling got cracked when the roofers reshingled the roof. Pretty badly cracked and nothing we can do about it. I slipped and fell on the front stairs, they were done in tiles that shouldn't be outside and now they're falling apart. The washing machine broke and we had to replace it. Landlord didn't want to pay for it. Then the furnace stopped working on one of the coldest nights of the year, never found out what was wrong with it as it started to work again later. Then the second washer stopped working as well. And that leads up to the incident last night where the shower head exploded. i looked at it today, the plastic housing on the pressure controller cracked and can't be repaired. Trouble seems to follow us everywhere, but I can look back on it all and laugh really, everything was amusing, but certainly not at the time it happened.