(The landlord fixed the stove the next day.)

Last night, outside the red-brick building, neighbors said that the landlord, who lived on the second floor, had recently fixed the family's bathroom wall.

The landlord won't fix our pipes and sometimes a heavy rain just comes right in.

"A landlord will fix, then five minutes after he fixes, it is broken," he said.

Mr. Sells said he withheld rent because of a faulty stove that the landlord would not fix.

The inspector later said the landlord had fixed the problem and pronounced the apartment safe.

Nevertheless, there was a powerful sequence in which she portrayed a woman who refused to pay the rent if her landlord didn't fix the plumbing.

I ask the landlord to fix it.

The team helped even before they arrived: His running water was restored after three weeks when the landlord, told that visitors were coming, fixed a pipe.

"There's nobody telling that landlord to fix the property," Simmons said.