Temperature in Apt.
I’d like to ask all the landlords out there, any input will be appreciated. The question is simple. What is the temperature you keep in the tenants apartments? The reason I’m asking is that my new tenants called and complained yesterday that it was too chilly in their apt. during the day. I keep temp….
I’d like to ask all the landlords out there, any input will be appreciated. The question is simple. What is the temperature you keep in the tenants apartments? The reason I’m asking is that my new tenants called and complained yesterday that it was too chilly in their apt. during the day. I keep temp. at 71 till 11:00 at night and 68 during the night. I think it’s preaty dicent. They are good tenants and I want to keep them comfortable but I politely refused to turn the temp. up.
Op I’m having the same issue with a forced air system. 70 degrees wont please all.
I plan on installing a temperature sensor in the cold apt and wire it to the thermostat in the hall to help me balance the heat.
I think this is a subject that always bothers tenants and landlords. Tenants feel they should have perfect comfort for them and landlords are running a business. No doubt all landlords will run into this at some time. Most tenants really don’t care about the fact you’re running a business, after all, it’s really easy to spend other peoples money. Once this issue bugged me so much I thought getting over weight tenants would be a good idea. That didn’t work either. I came to understand people have very different ideas about what temperature keeps them comfortable. What I ended up doing is getting the rentals to be in the 68-70 range and put the information in their lease. Doing my best at getting along with them is a plus too.
You are keeping it warm enough. I had a similiar experience to stonergut except my guy was from Georgia, it was February and when I went up to check the apartment he answered the door barefoot, wearing gym shorts and a tee shirt. I told him to put some clothes on.
I inform tenants that it is their responsibility to remove ac’s and lock the windows (which completes the seal). I had a tenant with an ac installed and a window open (not just unlocked, but open 4″) complain about being cold. Not my problem.
Echo poster above who said it is not the landlords responsibility to accommodate the tenant’s every desire.
The tenant has the option to purchase an electric radiator to supplement the 70-72 degrees that I supply. In 26 years that happened once – and she didn’t move, she stayed 5 years.
You’re already keeping it toastier than required. 68 degrees daytime and 55 at night (which is pretty chilly) I believe is required only in 3 or more family dwellings. If it’s a two family it’s probably whatever your lease says.
Check on weatherproofing opportunities, then ask your tenants if they’d be willing to renegotiate the lease and pay an extra 100 bucks a month for turning it up to a sauna-like 75.
Whiney bitter renters 🙂
I had a tenant constantly complaining about how cold it was. I would turn the heat up and turn it up, but finally the heat was so high I was afraid it was dangerous, so I went upstairs to see if there was some other problem.
The tenant (she was originally from Texas) was parading around in underpants and an undershirt. It was January, about 17 degrees outside. I reminded her she was living in North America in the winter and to put some clothes on and stop bitching, then I lowered the heat.
“The people on the first floor said they were now roasting but were willing to open windows to keep them and us comfortable. How’s that for COOPerative?”
No, how’s that for insane?! Why don’t you get the system balanced, it’s not that expensive and you’d be doing the whole world a favor.
One degree actually could make all the diffence in the world.
Maybe you could meet your tenant half way.
Hit send before I was able to say -from the homeowner who keeps his own heat at around 64. lol!)
Just turn it up a degree or two, you stingy ass landlord. I’m sure it’s not as warm as you think it is.