I am FUMING right now because my landlord is a total slumlord.

Here's what happened.

Something was wrong with my heating system. I had a professional come look at it in November, and he determined there was nothing really wrong with it and tried to tell me it was something I had done to cause the temp to not reach it's set temp (A/C units in the windows, for example).

Well, the temp on the thermostat continued not to reach its set temp, and by Dec - January, it was so cold in my apartment, I had to turn on two space heaters to keep my apartment heated. I ran those for a month, until the heating system completely busted the other day, and I lost all heat and hot water.

It turns out that some hose had broken. So in other words, there was a failing hose, the heating guy did not find this on the first visit to fix it and my landlord also tried to tell me it was nothing. Well, the second visit proved it was broken. It was fixed on this second visit.

However, I just received a $400 electric bill, on top of a $400 heating bill this month! That's what $800 for heat and electric in one month!!!

The way I see it is my landlord caused this because he's a total freaking cheapskate. He refused to believe something was wrong with the heat the first time, so I was forced to use space heaters, which jacked up my electric bill, until the heat completely busted and all heat was lost.

So I am fuming at my landlord. I cannot ask him to pay for it - he won't. He is a cheap bastard that I always have to push to get anything fixed!

Once when my apartment was infested with large black flies, and I was killing 10 per day inside my home, he first tried to tell me to just set traps! I demanded an exterminator and said this is a health hazard!

I hate my landlord right now. I love where I live, but he is one downside to living here. And I am freaking pissed. I can pay the bill, but I am still pissed.