[FR] Maintenance Troubles on Residential Lot: Can't do required task

Bug Description:
During active use of the "Maintenance Issues" lot challenge (from the For Rent expansion), the "Explosive Incident" event triggered incorrectly. The event requires repairing broken appliances, but:

• No actual malfunctions occurred (stove and all other appliances remained functional)
• No grills or similar explosive-prone objects were present on the residential lot
• Build mode remained locked for the full 22-hour event duration
• Event objectives could not be completed

Suspected Cause:
Improper event activation on a regular residential lot (not a rental property) while the "Maintenance Issues" challenge is active

Reproduction Steps:

1. Activate "Maintenance Issues" challenge on a non-rental residential lot
2. Wait for "Explosive Incident" event to trigger
3. Observe lack of broken appliances
4. Note build mode restrictions despite no repairable objects

Technical Details:

• Expansion: For Rent
• Lot Type: Regular Residential (non-rental)
• Platform: PC (Steam & EA App)
• Mods: None

Severity Impact:

• Blocks normal gameplay for 22 in-game hours
• Prevents build mode access without cause
• Creates impossible event completion

My spellcaster just became a land lord, and during a maintenance event, i cast repario on a broken appliance. The spell broke the event. I got a notification saying i couldn't complete the even even though the appliance is not broken. I took out my mods folder to test it again. Same issue. Mods aren't affecting this. I waited for a second maintenance event to spawn, and the same thing happened. 

For some reason, the maintenance event does not acknowledge repario as a valid way of fixing the appliance, and the entire event fails because of it.

Edit By Crinrict: Added missing pack tag to title.

Hi Solafae​ 

What platform are you playing on ?

Did you try if it works the regular way ? 

There's a bug report here for it not working at all: [FR] Maintenance Troubles on Residential Lot: Can't do required task | EA Forums - 11914227 so it would be good if you could test what happens if you repair regularly.

pc. i believe it works the regular way? The event timed out before i can finish repairing.

To be sure: You went back to that backup again and tested without mods but using the normal repair and it worked or is this when it timed out before you could do it ?

it timed out when i tried to do normal repair.

Yes I have the exact same issue with garden blight. I clicked on every plant on my lot and none of them had the deploy blight spray option. It is winter in my game so I made sure to try clicking on everything in case I couldn't see the visual difference between the blighted plants and the out of season ones. 

I never see a difference with any plants being labeled with blight. I literally just choose a random plant and uproot it and it completes the challenge. There is not option to apply blight spray because I can't find the blighted plant. 

Still having issues with maintenance troubles trait after update. Example: explosive maintenance nothing explodes, everything is fine no broken ovens. It will at least complete the task if you cheat and break an oven then fix it. 

Can confirm eight months after this initial bug report that this is still an issue. I've been playing on a regular residential lot with Maintenance Troubles and neither the blighted plants nor the broken stove/grill event work properly. They trigger, but my plants are fine and my cooking appliances are in tip top condition. (Normally those aren't things I'd complain about but I'm using this lot challenge because I want things to go wrong.)