The leech turned off the central heating because it is technically spring despite the frost
I woke up this morning and could literally see my breath in the living room . Checked the radiators and they were stone cold. We have had a brutal cold snap this week with temperatures dropping to around 34 degrees at night but apparently our landlord decided that since the calendar says May he is done paying for the building heating bill. I sent a polite text asking if there was a technical issue with the boiler and he just replied with some smug nonsense about how "spring has officially started" and we should all just "adjust our layers" to save the planet. It is funny how his environmental concern always aligns perfectly with him saving a few hundred bucks on gas while we freeze our asses off in apartments we pay way too much for already.
The worst part is that he lives in the attached unit on the ground floor and I walked past his window earlier to take the trash out. The guy was sitting there in a t-shirt and shorts and I could practically feel the heat radiating through the glass. He obviously has a separate thermostat or just bypassed the main system for his own wing of the house. It is the typical parasitic behavior where the rules only apply to the people actually paying his mortgage while he lives in luxury on our dime. I am currently sitting here under three blankets with a space heater that is probably going to double my electric bill this month because some greedy loser wants to squeeze every last cent out of his "investment".
I checked the local tenant laws and technically they are supposed to maintain a minimum temperature until June but we all know how that goes . By the time I get a city inspector out here the weather will have actually warmed up and he will just lie and say it was a temporary maintenance issue. There is no winning with these people because they do not see us as humans they just see us as ATMs that occasionally complain about basic survival needs. I am seriously considering just not paying the full rent this month and deducting the cost of the extra electricity but I know the legal system is rigged in his favor and he would have an eviction notice on my door by Tuesday.
It is just exhausting having to fight for the bare minimum every single season . Last summer it was the AC unit he refused to fix for three weeks and now this. I really hope the "market" he loves so much crashes so hard he actually has to go out and get a real job for once in his life instead of playing god with people's thermostats . I am about to go buy the loudest most inefficient space heater I can find just out of spite.