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    I am scared I am just the world's biggest bitch. This situation confirmed my fears- was I in the wrong?

    11 p.m- I came home at 9 and noticed how cold it was in my new house (renting a room inside a house) I try and stick it out but it's just too cold. I turn on the thermostat and up 4 degrees.

    I come out a few minutes later and notice it was turned off. I thought it was my other roommate who just went to bed who turned it off on his way. My landlord/roommate was sleeping, I figured it couldn't have been her and he went to bed too. So i turned it back on with the intention of turning it off after I got the chill out of my freezing self.

    I come out later to find a note that said "Do not touch thermostat. Talk to me if you have a problem with the temp." I wrote a note in response, "freezing and did not have chance to buy space heater. perhaps leave it on and talk tomorrow."

    Landlord knocks on my door within a minute. Apparently, she said, every little noise wakes her up, even the heat kicking on. We talk respectfully but she tends to ramble and during the conversation said that it was rude that i touched the thermostat and that she would 'never touch the thermostat in someone else's home' and that it was disrespectful for me to turn it back on after she had turned it off.

    Maybe in someone else's house but I felt that I was within reason to turn it on for a night since I pay rent here, and I explained why in the note. Also, I told her, that the first night I moved in it had to been in the 50's in my room and it's been cold night after night since then. But now I'm questioning this decision. Was I out of line or within reason?
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    Default Re: Am I just the world's biggest bitch?

    Landlord sounds like she's on a power trip. Considering the circumstances, I don't think you were out of line in the slightest.

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    KikiGem,

    Every state and city is different, but almost every locality has a law governing temperature in a space rented from a landlord where they are providing heat. Most of these ordinances and laws state that it must be kept at 68 degrees F minimum.

    If you can't work this out with your landlord, you can file a complaint. Personally, I would just move.

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    Totally not out of line, OP. When I was in my basement apt in VA this past winter, I came home more than once to a living space whose temperature dropped as low as the low 50sF. Fortunately my bf had a small space heater since our area did not have its own thermostat. But if I'd been told 'tough' by my landlord whose (above ground) living space was a good 15degrees warmer, I would be pissed off too. If she is going to be so anal abt it then the least she can do is provide you a space heater, ours was a dinky little thing that was less than $50 but it was very efficient.

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    no, you were not out of line!! you are paying money for a warm roof over your head, and it should be at the very least in the mid to high 60s. tell her to get a damn sound machine if the noise bothers her, or come up with another way to heat your room but her sleeping problems are not your problem, you deserve to be warm in the place you are living.

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    Thanks for the answers everyone. I thought she definitely overreacted and until she told me how rude she thought I was being, I didn't see why turning on the heat would be a problem. She also has gotten on my case for taking showers that are longer than she would like me to take. She said at one point I took a 30 minute shower, but umm the hot water does not stay on past 15 minutes and after ten minutes starts to get cold.

    I am going to buy a space heater, an expense I wish I didn't have to do right now. She is only concerned with her bills, but she has three tenants total all at $400-$450/month, so she can't be doing that bad.
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    I would just move out, you are paying for the privilege of being treated like this. Not cool!

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    She sounds like the bitch. lol

    I know when I have people visiting or living in my home, I want everyone to be comfortable.

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    Default Re: Am I just the world's biggest bitch?

    If anything, she was/is the bitch! You handled the situation perfectly, not bitchy at all! But, I guess this does mean it's time to buy a space heater if you don't want to deal with her BS or turn into an icicle ;].

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    I don't think you were out of line at all. You aren't a guest in that house, you pay rent every month... you didn't change the thermostat in someone else's house, you changed it in your own. I would tell her that you will be taking the cost of a space heater out of your rent for the next month if you are unable to use the heating in her house, there's no way I would just put up with that expense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by audrey_k View Post
    I don't think you were out of line at all. You aren't a guest in that house, you pay rent every month... you didn't change the thermostat in someone else's house, you changed it in your own. I would tell her that you will be taking the cost of a space heater out of your rent for the next month if you are unable to use the heating in her house, there's no way I would just put up with that expense.
    Yes^! She doesn't sound like a bitch..she sounds like a super ANAL BITCH! The sound of the heat wakes her up?? She times your showers, lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AmericanFlyer View Post
    KikiGem,

    Every state and city is different, but almost every locality has a law governing temperature in a space rented from a landlord where they are providing heat. Most of these ordinances and laws state that it must be kept at 68 degrees F minimum.

    If you can't work this out with your landlord, you can file a complaint. Personally, I would just move.
    Yep - a quick city ordinance search should turn this information up. I'd forgotten about that. Great advice!

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