Here's What Happened Next After My Landlord Called Me A Communist.
All I did was ask for heat!
I get questions on my Instagram from time to time regarding things I’ve written here, so today I thought it would be good to respond to one of them. This is a question I keep getting over and over so I thought it was finally worth addressing: Do you have heat?
The answer, is yes! Kind of.
That story didn’t really end great which is why I didn’t feel like talking about it. If you’re forgetting what happened, you can read all that here. Basically, my landlord allowed (forced?) me to live without heat for months while giving me no concessions on rent, during which I found out he’d tricked my neighbor into not having heat for eight years. Naturally, that part of the story made me furious. The way he aggressively reacted to me asking for heat also bothered me, culminating in him accusing me of being a communist because I wanted heat.
A lawyer who reached out to me through Instagram was convinced that not only was it illegal not to have heat in the living room of both units (I live in a duplex), both units were also entitled to heat in the bedrooms (this actually is the city code). So my goal was to try and get my landlord to install heat in my unit AND install heat in my neighbor’s unit. My neighbor was too scared and intimidated by previous interactions with the landlord to file a complaint with the housing department.
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