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This wouldn't be to fix it...
...it would be to verify on your own that the son is telling the truth.
Anyway, I'm really skeptical. If the wires were flipped, they would have been since the apartment was last rewired. Wires don't just flip themselves! I'm wondering if someone was screwing around with the wiring at the circuit-breaker panel to your unit.