Can you help me solve my electrical mystery?

Any signs of animal life? They can get in the walls and chew on the wires. Or is it the entire area served by that breaker? The breaker could be bad. It happens with anything mechanical.

Have you checked the little breaker in the bathroom’s power outlet? (ground-fault circuit interrupters, or GFCIs).

I have seen aluminum wiring (popular in the 70s) fail that way.

Ae you handy with electricity. If not, then move along… there’s nothing to see here, folks.

OK you asked for it….
Look for the last outlet on the run that has power. Do this either with a tester or a simple night light. Mark it. Now turn off the breaker. Remove the cover plate and outlet from the wall leaving the wires connected. The outlet will have two wires, white and black, attached to each side of housing. I will bet you a coffee the screw that is attached to the black wire on one side is loose or burned out. Cut off the burned end, strip the wire and replace it after cleaning up the burned contact. The whole process will take you 10–15 minutes.
Done! I’ll have mine with cream and sugar please.

I’d bet GFIs are tripped. Like @gondwanalon said.

@bkcunningham I thought that too, but wouldn’t the GFI’s only affect things plugged into that outlet.

We are such a bunch of guys. Throw us a problem and we love to solve it.

No, the GFI outlet can be wired so that, legally by code, as many as five additional devices can be carried/protected through that GFI, @Adirondackwannabe.

@bkcunningham Thanks, I didn’t know that.

Thanks guys. My landlord called me back and told me to go outside by the electrical boxes where the usage is counted lift a box by it and wiggle these giant plugs until the light came on… Took some running back and forth but it worked. Mentally noted your tips for later cuz I might need it!

Can’t believe how much I am getting robbed to live here..

Read my disclaimer above…. Still with me?
You might want to bend the pins on that “giant plug” a little so it makes better contact and stays in place. Just a little pinch will do.

(Since the problem was not aluminum wiring, I guess I owe you a coffee.)

I knew I would eventually use my needle nose pliers. I was elated they had rubber handles too until I went to fix it and realized the thing had no power. Doh.

(I’ll trade coffee for any future tips. But then I won’t turn it down either.)

If you have to wiggle anything to make it work, there is a significant fire hazard. “Loose wires start fires!”. I’d make sure your smoke alarms are less than ten years old (date code on back) and in good working order. If they aren’t, you are in a dangerous situation.