My question is concerning Landlord tenant law in the state of Florida
Me and my wife have recently moved into a new rental home and have been here about a month. This place had several small things wrong with it and a few major things upon move in, which we wrote down on the move in sheet and gave to our landlord to fix. All of them have been taken car of for the most part to our satisfaction except for the A/C.
It basically isn't working right at all. Florida routinely gets upwards of 90 degrees, especially during the summer, and this A/C unit will not get below 78 degrees according to the newly installed thermostat(It took awhile to get that installed, the old one was just a on/off switch, the mercury didn't work right and wouldn't regulate temperature).
The only way we can keep it cool is to have it run 24/7 which makes the house a refrigerator at night and then the cool air will be enough to keep it cool during the day(Providing we don't have workers constantly keeping the door open repairing things). We just got our first months electric bill though and it is almost $200 more than our previous house that was about the same size house. His answer to this was that it's an older house and A/C unit so the cost will be higher.
Is he not by law obligated to to fix/replace the A/C unit if it cannot regulate temperature right. I don't feel that I should have to run up my electric bill so high and be freezing at night to have a cool house.

