Yesterday it was snowing in Portland. A friend of mine getting ready to fly to Moscow was going shopping for clothes and jokingly told me that now she was going shopping for Portland clothing rather than Moscow clothing. Today I am making a complaint to the owners of the apartment building. The manager does not run the heat. Why, when it is snowing outside. I am having difficulty sleeping because I am shivering all night. Other people in the apartment building are incredulous and we talk among ourselves of this scandal. For two months we have had to deal with this. The heat is included in the price of our rent. It is ridiculous!! He does run it, though, by waking us up at 4:00 in the morning by hot water causing the pipes to explode. It should not be up to him to decide when it is cold enough to run the heat or not because every apartment unit has the option to turn it on or turn it off. But right now we don’t have the option to turn it on. Yesterday was probably the coldest day of the year and it didn’t come on until after midnight. That is why other tenants and myself talk excitedly among us. Our apartment manager isn’t one to inspire warmth, however, and wouldn’t understand.
What is more, he has tried to pressure me into signing a year lease and threatened, if I don’t, to raise my rent. Is this legal? I dont’ have my original contract and may request a copy of it from him but I am sure once we move in they are not allowed to just arbitrarily raise the rent or else nobody would move into those apartments.
