Yet another heat/hot water thread - feel like super is trolling us (New York: apartments)

[deecbee]

So, I live in a building with an owner who is apparently infamous for slumlordish ways. For most of the winter we had spotty heat. It would come on for an hour in the morning, an hour or two in the evening, and be freezing cold the rest of the time. We also only received hot water when the heat was on. When the heat was off, the water ran cold or room temperature at best.

After joining up with the neighbors to complain and call 311, a home inspector randomly showed up a few days ago to check apartments for heat. Somehow the super (who lives on-site and is a complete bum) knew about it because the heat was running at full blast in the middle of the day (which has NEVER happened since I've moved here) and the water was HOT I actually jumped when I turned on the kitchen sink because I had never experienced even warm water out of that faucet.

So of course the home inspector had nothing to record because the heat and hot water were running. But since then, the heat hasn't turned off, not even for a second. Not even when it hit 60 yesterday. So now I'm starting to wonder, is the super trolling or what? Or is the hot water tied to heat, leaving us with all or nothing? And if the latter is the case, what happens in the summer when it's too hot for heat?

[nycman9]

I feel your pain bud, there are thousands of renters like us going thru the same ordeal... the exact same situation happens in my bldg(bainbridge and 194st).. Heating has been horrible all winter year, we went thru hell all year long. I had to use portable heaters but that crank up my electric bill like if is a mansion, so my coned bill comes super high. when i call or go to the office landlord tell me it is on and how they changed this and that. I tell them that I live there and that im not loosing my mind and the heat is very poor and very inconsistent. It might come on at 6am for like a half our..
any way this new landlord has been pulling our legs since he took over 5 years ago, the bldg is deterioration rapidly. The super is a super idiot and useless, can’t get anything fix the proper way.
On top of that, now they take anyone with a heartbeat into the bldg, so we have a few “thugs” run apts.
All he cares is about his rent but does not provide what all leases mandate "a quite and free enjoyment of the premises"

[Kefir King]

a home inspector randomly showed up a few days ago to check apartments
for heat. Somehow the super (who lives on-site and is a complete bum) knew
about it

Are you implying a crooked home inspector? That could NEVER happen, unless of course you are talking about New York City in which case it's one of the requirements of the job.

[Bronxguyanese]

Originally Posted by deecbee

So, I live in a building with an owner who is apparently infamous for slumlordish ways. For most of the winter we had spotty heat. It would come on for an hour in the morning, an hour or two in the evening, and be freezing cold the rest of the time. We also only received hot water when the heat was on. When the heat was off, the water ran cold or room temperature at best.

After joining up with the neighbors to complain and call 311, a home inspector randomly showed up a few days ago to check apartments for heat. Somehow the super (who lives on-site and is a complete bum) knew about it because the heat was running at full blast in the middle of the day (which has NEVER happened since I've moved here) and the water was HOT I actually jumped when I turned on the kitchen sink because I had never experienced even warm water out of that faucet.

So of course the home inspector had nothing to record because the heat and hot water were running. But since then, the heat hasn't turned off, not even for a second. Not even when it hit 60 yesterday. So now I'm starting to wonder, is the super trolling or what? Or is the hot water tied to heat, leaving us with all or nothing? And if the latter is the case, what happens in the summer when it's too hot for heat?

Is this building in Midtown?