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[ivyfic]

For completely asinine reasons, I'm too stubborn to turn on the heat in my apartment until November. This means my apartment's about 65 degrees, which is cold enough to make my hands freeze if I try to read a book. I sleep very well when it's 65, though (with enough blankets). The problem is when I have to get out of bed in the morning. Ugh.

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[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I put the heat on last night, enough to keep the apartment at 68. Jethrien is hard to get out of bed on the best of days, but when the air is cold but the bed is warm...oh, the whining. If I let the heat drop too much, nothing short of setting the bed on fire will get her up. And even then...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Apparently, people have been bugging our super to turn on the heat but the management company won't let him. I was pretty sure that they have to guarantee heat once the temperature dips below a certain degree outside, so maybe we just haven't reached it yet.

I'm glad I closed my windows finally, as it was chilly enough this morning that I wouldn't relish trying to get out of bed if they'd been open. I slept like a log in the cool air, but it's no picnic to wake up.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

"Heat must be supplied from October 1 through May 31, to tenants in multiple dwellings if: a) the outdoor temperature falls below 55 degrees Fahrenheit, between 6 A.M. and 10 P.M., each apartment must be heated to a temperature of at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit; (b) the outdoor temperature falls below 40 degrees Fahrenheit, between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M., each apartment must be heated to a temperature of at least 55 degrees Fahrenheit. (Multiple Dwelling Law § 79)" From http://www.oag.state.ny.us/realestate/habitability.html

I remember dealing with this in my apartment in Williamsburg--my roommate at the time generated no body heat, so she was really, really anal about making sure the landlord suppied every therm he was supposed to. I think most people don't realize what a blessing managing and paying for your own heat is--you're paying for it anyway if it's included in the rent, and in that case, you'll get exactly what the law demands, but not the tiniest bit more.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

55 degrees is ass cold!

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Even 68 kinda sucks. I was never allowed to turn the temperature up above that in winter, back in PA, and my parents thought little of my argument that if it were that temperature outside at any other time of year, I'd have a freaking coat on.

[veryschway.livejournal.com]

It is!

I must say, I've never had a problem with landlords and heating. In the place I lived in for three years before my current abode, it was positively balmy all winter, and I often actually had to open the windows and wear shorts. It is nice right now that my rent is super-cheap and we control our own heat, since my roomie and I spend most of our time at our respective boyfriends' houses anyway and don't end up heating the apartment very often, anyway.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kind of wish we could control the heat because my experience with places that did not allow you to do that has always been slanting towards the negative. In our old place, it wasn't too much of a problem, although it was always a bit hot such that we usually had a window cracked somewhere. Our new place has a similar problem that's actually more pronounced. In that respect, I don't mind the coolness that much, since I can manage it better than I can being too hot.

And, psychologically, I'm pretty okay with putting off acknowledging that winter is coming for as long as possible. I didn't complain at all when we had almost no winter last year and I'm not sorry the autumn's been so mild either.

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Says the girl with the closing window. My floor's been like ice for the last four days or so. I'm just glad that we now have a competent super who finally fixed the thing, after the last guy insisted it would close if you just pulled forward hard enough (pfft!). But even with the window closed last night and the curtains drawn to pocket the cold air, this morning it was *freezing.*

If it's not on by the end of the week, when it's NOVEMBER, HELLO, I'm going to eat someone's head.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abulafia/]

Meanwhile, my landlord's hands aren't tied, he's just criminally lackadaisical about the welfare of his tenants. Goddamned landlords. ::fist of solidarity?::

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::Fist of solidarity::!!