Update (Numero Dos)

Life in the apartment saga has gotten a little better in the past week.

My roommate finally paid up, and our deposit checks were cut and sent out by our landlord.

Gina's parents came to visit this past weekend. Gina's Italian father had a very rude run-in with our landlord at the property when he was walking to our door. Our landlord ran up to him yelling "What are you doing here? Why are you on this property?" To that, he was able to answer something along the lines of, "Visiting my daughter. And why isn't anything done in their house EVER?" He proceeded to sternly question him about why our requests are never answered, and made sure our landlord didn't think he could take advantage of us girls because we were young, and he was going to make sure things got done. Right then and there our landlord came into our place and checked out everything we had been asking him to. While he didn't fix it, at least he was intimidated enough to act like he was going to get it done.

Our thermostat now works, and they installed ALL our fixtures (outside and inside). :) Thanks Mr. Siemplenski!!!