Dude. My landlord has been trying for weeks (months?) to get a carpenter to do some work on our apartmen, replacing the front and back doors and their locks, and putting a shelf into our closet and the pantry cabinet. After two weeks, he finally gets someone to arrive. Now, I didn't really think about how difficult or involving a job it would be to o all this. I assumed the doors would come fit to "door size", with pre-drilled holes, but I was wrong. The carpenter had to cut the doors to size, drill the hole and install the locks, and get everything in alignment so that everything would fit together properly. But dude has been here for ten hours and he's not quite finished. This also means my landlord has been coming in and out of my apartment. He's an interesting, nice guy, but he's very eccentric, mildly condescending and very nosy. He still thinks of our apartment as part of his house, like we're roomers in his home, rather than renters in one unit of the building that he owns. That's the double-edged cliché about landlord's who live in the building: he's always there (when you need him?)
Don't get me wrong, it's by far preferable to the opposite, the absentee landlord, which we had in Somerville. I just get tired of feeling like my landlord is my Aunt Dot, the relative that hovers over you, always with somthing midlly (but palpably) negative or bossy ("why are you doing it that way?") to say.