Things were good mostly with my roommate during our college years
When I decided to become my buddy’s roommate when I got into college, I thought it was going to be great.
I figured we would have parties all the time and our home would be the number one place to be.
Well, from the beginning we struggled with air quality issues and the HVAC system didn’t work especially well. When we asked the landlord if he would repair the HVAC, he would always come up with some excuse not to do anything. He might send the handyman out, but he wouldn’t do much. He mostly would just check the HVAC and then tell us to hire an HVAC professional. We finally ended up looking into local HVAC services. We had an HVAC professional come out and he provided a tune-up for the cooling system. I couldn’t believe how well the cooling system was working after this guy was done. I thought that was going to be money we would never get back, but my friend insisted we take that out of the rent. We showed the receipt for the necessary HVAC maintenance and said that was the landlord’s responsibility. He didn’t give us a hard time or anything and I was happy that our HVAC was working better. We changed the air filters regularly and I learned that the better quality the air filters, the better air quality we experienced in general. We did have some issues over the years living together, but overall we had a good time. The only real issue was fighting over who’s turn it was to do certain chores like cleaning the bathroom.