Bathroom Ceiling Leak, #8

If you've read the previous post on the bathroom ceiling leak, you'll be glad to hear it took a week for Forward Management Pittsburgh to "fix" the leak.

By "fix" I mean that the cracking paint and rotting dry wall were painted over. Today. At 4pm. At 9pm, I found water leaking out of the bottom of where the rotting dry wall is, the middle of the wall. The below photos will show how the cracking paint has been fixed, but the photos also show the eternal leak.

The bathroom leak, coming from a newly painted wall.

A little closer.

All photos were taken on 9/21/11.

Bathroom Ceiling, Leak #7

Bathroom ceiling, leaking and damage, from up close.

I called Forward Management Pittsburgh this morning at ~11am to report another, not surprising, maintenance problem. For the seventh time in three years. Yes, this is a chronic bathroom ceiling leak that Forward Management Pittsburgh refuses to fix properly. I assume the maintenance guy will do what all the other maintenance guys have done in the past: repaint the affected area. We all know how well paint fixes a chronic bathroom ceiling leak.

Dirty water from the ceiling, pooling in the bathroom cup holder.

Bathroom ceiling, leaking and damage, from afar.

Water droplets falling off my light fixture. This leak is a fire hazard!

These photos were all taken on Monday, September 12, 2011.

[Maintenance came by and "fixed" the leak on 9/21/11. The fix was simply a paint job, and five hours later, the wall was leaking again as shown below:

The bathroom leak, coming from a newly painted wall.

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Forward Management Building Broken Washing Machines

As I went to do my laundry this afternoon, I realized that one of our building washing machines was missing. Not a major tragedy (well, aside from the stagnant water where the machine used to be, that has since bread a mosquito that has bitten me. Delightful). So, I loaded my laundry into the remaining machine, put in detergent, and then placed the four quarters in their slots. After pushing the quarters into the machine, nothing happened. It appears that this Forward Management Apartment Building Property does not have any functioning washing machines.

At around 4pm (when this happened), I called Forward Management and was directed to the answering machine, as usual. So, it appears the residents of this building will not be able to do any laundry this weekend. And I am out 4 quarters, and have no clean towels. It is very irresponsible of Forward Management to do this, without warning anyone. I guess this is not surprising for a landlord with abysmal ratings on LandOrSlum.

Stagnant water where old washing machine used to be, now a vibrant mosquito breeding ground.

Power Outage

There was a building-wide power outage today, at ~8:00pm. The power company showed up and worked on the power lines down the street. After approximately 50 minutes in the dark, the power returned around 8:50pm.

Forward Management's Broken Stairwell Railing

Found this rail fallen from its attachment to the wall in the basement/1st floor public stairwell of the building. I tried calling Forward Management Pittsburgh, but had to leave a message on the answering machine. However, the answering machine was full for both extensions '2' and '3'. I will have to call earlier on Monday, 6/6/11.

[Edit 8/5/11: The railing is still broken.]
[Edit 12/4/11: The railing was fixed a couple months ago.]

Forward Management Pittsburgh's Ever-broken Hallway Fixture

The dimly lit photo below accurately depicts what the hallway looks like at 10:30am (notice how the light may be on, but it's not actually producing any light that hits the floor).

The light fixture was "fixed" a week or so ago, but after the power outage a few nights ago, it's gone back to being broken. even better, the plastic fixture has a large crack. Classy.

[Update at 5:45pm: Aaaaaaand the half-broken light has been fixed, with the plastic cover removed.

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Update 8/5/11: The main broken light is broken/out again. The only light on this floor is a smaller one that's in one of the two-apartment "nooks."
Update 12/4/11: The hallway light was completely replaced last week, with a typical apartment interior light fixture. No more neon.

Forward Management Pittsburgh Owes $2,091 to People's Natural Gas

Another letter from People's Natural Gas was taped to the front door of the building today. Apparently, Forward Management Pittsburgh is overdue on their People's Natural Gas Bill again. This would be more shocking if it weren't so frequent. Tenants have the option to start paying their rent towards the $2,091.55 gas bill.