Comments on: No heat in Apartment

By: sandra eisenhauer

sandra eisenhauer — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:35:54 +0000

I have been living in an apartment {basement}. I pay 1,000 a month. Every winter we have to beg for heat, Our landlord is a jerk and
he always tells us I can;t put the heat on because you always have the windows open. He is full of crap because the windows are always closed. He a thick italian from the other side. I am getting sick because one night it was 37 degrees and we had no heat. I would
like to know what I should do to get his ass in trouble.

By: Kristen Windler

Kristen Windler — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:12:49 +0000

I have been renting the apartment that I am currently in for almost a year now. It sucks here because I havn’t had heat for over two and a half months! When it went out the building manager told me that it would be 2 days to a week until it was fixed. Now here it is two and a half or more months later and I am still freezing my ass off. The landlord has given me crappy space heaters that either were so old that they almost caught on fire and or blew out the power in the rest of the building so, that one was pointless…about a month into having no heat I complained AGAIN to the building manager but this time I was not as nice about it and said that this was some “Slum Lord” stuff because it is! They finally provided me with a decent space heater (by decent I mean it didn’t seem so damned dangerous) however, yesterday the “matinence kid called me and said he had to come get it because the person that they borrowed it from had said that it had been gone for too long….Now, shouldn’t that say something to someone? My dog is shivering right now as we speak and is curled up under the blankets…What can I do? I really don’t want to pay anymore money to these people…what do i need to do because clearly they don’t give a shit.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:51:37 +0000

I have been renting an apartment for about 5 years. It is in a basement and there is no heating system in the unit. In my first year my landlord provided me with a space heater when I noticed there were no heating ducts in my apartment. I had to run the space heater all day along with my oven just to try and warm the apartment up. But to no avail I am always cold every winter in Ohio. I pay $350.00 a month and can’t afford anything higher. Can a Landlord rent an apartment without adequate heat?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:47:13 +0000

You landlord is required to provide a working heating unit. So, the landlord has breached agreement by not providing heat. I really doubt that the problem can’t be fixed until spring. I’m sure it can be fixed now, if not radiant heating would never be installed. I imagine that your landlord is delaying the process, most likely due to financing problems.
I suggest doing whatever it takes to get the heat fixed and working. You may need to get some legal help.