Excerpts from actual letters sent to landlords...
     
1.  "The toilet is blocked and we cannot bathe the children until it is 
cleared."
     
2.  "I want some repairs done to my stove as it has backfired and burnt my 
knob off."
     
3.  "This is to let you know that there is a smell coming from the man next 
door."
     
4.  "I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is running away from the wall."
     
5.  "I request your permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen."
     
6.  "Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces."
     
7.  "Will you please send someone to mend our cracked sidewalk.  Yesterday 
my wife tripped on it and is now pregnant."
     
8.  "Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny color 
and not fit to drink."
     
9.  "Would you please send a man to repair my downspout.  I am an old page 
pensioner and need it straight away."
     
10.  "When the workmen were here they put their tools in my wife's new 
drawers and made a mess.  Please send men with clean tools to finish the 
job and keep my wife happy."