Do you know the legal day when the heat has to be turned on in Ma? Warm states ,...no need to rub it in,..you have your own problems. --66.30.xx.xxx

Never mind,..I found it,..Sept 15th,..yikes! --66.30.xx.xxx

"If your landlord does not make repairs after you have either notified her in writing or she has been ordered by the Board of Health to make repairs, you may need to consider other options, such as withholding your rent, making repairs and deducting the cost from your rent, working with other tenants to put pressure on the landlord, taking your landlord to court, or breaking your lease." --71.174.xxx.xx

Won't be long. --99.103.xxx.xxx

building that calls the BOH for any little thing. They CAUSE problems so they can report it, uses it as a tool to not pay rent. Trying not to give them more tools. Trying to get rid of them. --66.30.xx.xxx

Carol, Regarding the tenant calling the BOH- I have a remedy for this. I have the BOH come in and do an inspection BEFORE the tenant moves in. If anything needs to be fixed they will let you know and reinspect when it is done ( without a tenant there to hold up the repairs and play rent games).They document that there are no violations. If the tenant calls them after move in they will go out and do a new inspection. If they find violations, they order the tenant to fix and give them s a timeframe to fix it in. --68.118.xxx.xx

It's still solar minimum, no sunspots, and this is one of the signs. Early cold. It was 48 here in the morning yesterday. We are heading into Solar Maximum but it will be a lower maximum for several cycles. Prepare for colder and wetter by insulating where you can. It's kind of cumulative over time so if one cycle is cooler and that goes on, at the end of this thirty year cycle of lower maximums, the glaciers may be back. Plants and trees seem to like this. My willow tree has exploded in growth. Crops like it too. Extreme sun is only loved by desert lizards. --71.104.xx.xxx

Note to self, If I ever become a tenant, go to CA, NY or MA --73.120.xx.xxx

If the building has a boiler system then installing a electronic Tekmar boiler control system where there is sensor on the outside, sensor on the boiler loop and indoor sensor in the building where can set up the outside temperature that the heat comes on. During fall and spring some days heat is not required during the day where the heat will come on when the temperature set. Over a period of the heating season a electronic boiler system will pay off then savings after that. Not only is there saving in natural gas, electricity where also less and tear on equipment. A bit more then get a control where in the future if a indirect hot water tank then the boilers can be used for hot water. Indirect hot water tanks lose less then one degree per hour along with more hot water and last many times longer then a direct fired hot water tank that is coming on to compensate for the heat loss going up the chimney which can be 7 to 12 degrees per hour. In the apartment building the outside temperature was set for 10 degrees Celsius where the inside temperature was set for 21 degrees Celsius to conform with the building code. Today the heating would go off where at night would come on. --147.194.xxx.xx