Chippopotanuse t1_ir2z5jy wrote on October 4, 2022 at 11:10 PM

Is this a legal apartment?

If not, calling in the authorities to find any heating violation by the landlord (which might be the case, the heat seems insufficient) may land you on the streets.

Which is how landlords get away with beyond shitty illegal apartments.

Are utilities separately metered?

And please don’t use space heaters for heat. They are typically banned as heating devices since they cause tons of fires in old shitty apartments (wires behind the walls get too hot and can arc/catch on fire) and the resulting fire could kill you.

I’d honestly call a lawyer about whether the city can force you out if there are violations presented, and also ask the lawyer if you even need to be paying rent for the lack of heat, or whether you can escrow rent.

Are utilities separately metered? Are you paying for heat and electric? Or is that covered in the rent?

Pretty_Bed1983 t1_itg76ct wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:27 PM

Woahhh... your post comes off really condescending. Like, I know how fires start, I'm not a child. I already know everything you said actually, went to school for that, but all of it is irrelevant anyway... You went down a rabbit hole....

My apt is 100% legal and not shitty or something. I was just asking about the heater is all.

Chippopotanuse t1_itg8e60 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:39 PM

Bro, you don’t have heat in your rooms. You asked for help.

I offered good faith advice.

Nothing was condescending. That’s on you if you choose to read it that way.

If you feel the need to puff your chest out and try to act like you know everything and “went to school for it” and want to still claim your apartment is legal and “not shitty”…ask yourself why it doesn’t have a proper heating system.

100% it wouldn’t pass any occupancy in ANY town in Mass if it has habitable rooms with no heat source. Thus my comment on it not being legal.

Pretty_Bed1983 t1_itg8rtk wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:43 PM

I have seen the paperwork, it is 10000000000% legal, trust me. I don't want to write too much in case my landlord ever somehow saw this. It is just one of those situations that is kinda shitty but legal. Like a loophole. I can get all the rooms to the correct temperature so that's why.

The rest of what you said is correct, it's just based off of an entirely different scenario is all. If it was illegal, then definitely, yes.

The explaining how fires start and why space heaters are dangerous part definitely sounds condescending. Just comes off as if talking to a child or clueless person explaining how fires start, that's all.

Chippopotanuse t1_itg9hku wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:49 PM

Like I said, if you want to interpret folks trying to be helpful as treating you like a child…that’s on you. I talked to you the way I would have talked to my best friend.

YOU came here to solicit advice.

YOU talked about using space heaters for heat (yet now are defensively saying that without space heaters you can “get all the rooms to the correct temperature”)

I wish you the best. But you are reading all sorts of things into my comments on your own accord.

Pretty_Bed1983 t1_itg9vir wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:53 PM

You need to read more thoroughly. I mentioned that I used them a few times but not anymore and that it's not an option, not using them.

And yes, I can get the rooms to the correct temperature using the supplied heating source, I just have to turn the thermostat up high. How is that confusing?