re: Issue with apartment complex over AC unit

They aren't going to evict him because no one is going to rent it until the air is fixed. So they might as well just fix it for him and not go through the added hassle of evicting him and having to fix it anyway plus lose rent $ while they look for s new tenant.

They just need the proper motivation.

I would either do that or have it fixed and deduct that from the rent.

I had to do the latter once when the water heater busted at a house I rented and I couldn't get the landlady to answer her phone and I wasn't going to go without hot water. I had already missed a day of work to clean it up (thankfully it happened before I left for work) plus the actual work of cleaning it up.

She bitched a little bit about it at first until I reminded her that I was the one who cleaned it up, missed work $$ so she didn't have to (plus she lived 60+ miles away) and called around to find someone who had the correct type water heater (old lake house that had a countertop water heater). Then arranged it all saving her the hassle. She shut up pretty quickly.

You don't have to eat shite if you're a good tenant who pays his rent on time and takes care of the place. Landlords don't want to miss out on any rent they don't have to plus risk getting a new tenant who might not be as good as the current one. The odds were highly against her upgrading renters and she knew that.

Edit: Granted this was renting from an individual and not some corporate group. I always try to do business of any kind with individuals or mom and pop stores because they're easier to reason with than corporate places.