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    Default Told to Move Out After Complaining About Lack of Heat

    My question involves an eviction in the state of: New York

    Hello, I have a problem as below:

    I signed a contract (which unfortunately I do not have a copy of) with my landlady.
    I pay 750 monthly which includes utilities.
    I have not had heat for a few weeks and had notified her two weeks ago (perhaps more in form of text messages and an email she received from my work address).

    I had also spoken to her face to face a few times (she always seemed to want to leave the discussion and room however). I had attempted essentially to tell her and did that the room I am renting from has no heat. I am on the 1st floor of the residence. I told her by maybe the 3rd time I spoke to her that the rest of the floor might have heat, I touched the radiator to make sure but my room did not. I explained I was cold sleeping and shaking due to uncomfortable lack of heat.

    It is not November 20th, I have exhausted myself trying to speak to her and disagreements have ocurred with her. We were friends before this, however I pay her monthly and I explained she had a duty to fulfill and that I should have known what was going on to rectify it.

    But she never acknowledged the problem. On the 19th of Nov, she set the thermostat to 90 and then 85 degrees (after two weeks of not doing anything to listen) and the heat for hours only sat at 67 and then less into that night. I don't know what else she was going to do other than for this one night the heat actually working. Honestly it seems obvious there is something wrong with the thermostat just by that instance alone. She had been *testing* it for hours, her words. Well should you have not needed to put it that high in the first place then? And what about my room? No heat is in there.

    We had completely different reasoning, she feels that I just want more heat, I explained I don't think I live in the tropics, I just want heat at all. It's broken. She just gets upset every time I say anything. And now has told me to move out by the end of November.

    I have backed up my text messages from her completely ignoring the fact that this seems illegal to me. Can you please tell me what is really legal here in this picture? I have a certain idea but nothing online to refer to it seems. Thank you

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    Default Re: Told to Move Out After Complaining About Lack of Heat

    To be clear here, you're renting a room in a house, the house itself is adequately heated, but there's a problem in your bedroom that causes it to be cooler than the rest of the house - and to make it warmer the rest of the house must be heated to what others may deem an unreasonable temperature? The temperature of your room when the thermostat is set at the landlord's preferred temperature is what? How old is the radiator system you're talking about - perhaps the pipes to your room are obstructed.

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