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Summer can die in a poetically ironic fire...
13 years ago
Now, before anyone jumps in with how summer is the greatest season of the year, don't get me wrong - I love summer. Autumn is my favorite for its milder temperatures and beautiful colors, but summer is still great. However, what is not great is boiling alive in my two bedroom apartment on the second floor of a building which does not have central air, and makes you pay 60.00 bucks a month extra just to have your own personal AC unit - which, I might add, they do not supply for you.
Now, I can see why they might charge the extra money monthly for the operation of an AC unit in a building which supplies all of our utilities. I really can. But for some of us who don't have a very high monthly income, the extra money is simply not available. With heat up in the 40s celsius and 50+ % humidity, heatstroke is a very real possibility, especially for children like my two year old little girl. Today we finally had to break down and purchase an air conditioner unit (we decided to spring some of our money we were going to put into savings and get a decent mobile one). 300.00 bucks later, our apartment is cooling down and we're no longer running the risk of suffocating our little girl with the nature of summer, but now we're fighting to recover the finances lost in the act.
And frankly? Apartment buildings should come with air conditioning of some sort as a mandatory requirement. Landlords should not be able to gouge financially unstable families just because they want a few extra bucks. If you want to charge 60+ dollars every month to run these units, you should supply the damn units in the first place. I dunno, I just feel like this is some super dick around. These are the same guys who still haven't fixed our leaking bathroom faucet after we repeatedly reported it for four months, wouldn't fix the door to our daughter's room when it didn't close because it was not cut properly (we had to shave it to make it fit the frame), and still haven't looked at the raising floorboards of our living room hard wood floor. So, yeah. Not impressed.
Don't mind me, I'm just bitching.
Now, I can see why they might charge the extra money monthly for the operation of an AC unit in a building which supplies all of our utilities. I really can. But for some of us who don't have a very high monthly income, the extra money is simply not available. With heat up in the 40s celsius and 50+ % humidity, heatstroke is a very real possibility, especially for children like my two year old little girl. Today we finally had to break down and purchase an air conditioner unit (we decided to spring some of our money we were going to put into savings and get a decent mobile one). 300.00 bucks later, our apartment is cooling down and we're no longer running the risk of suffocating our little girl with the nature of summer, but now we're fighting to recover the finances lost in the act.
And frankly? Apartment buildings should come with air conditioning of some sort as a mandatory requirement. Landlords should not be able to gouge financially unstable families just because they want a few extra bucks. If you want to charge 60+ dollars every month to run these units, you should supply the damn units in the first place. I dunno, I just feel like this is some super dick around. These are the same guys who still haven't fixed our leaking bathroom faucet after we repeatedly reported it for four months, wouldn't fix the door to our daughter's room when it didn't close because it was not cut properly (we had to shave it to make it fit the frame), and still haven't looked at the raising floorboards of our living room hard wood floor. So, yeah. Not impressed.
Don't mind me, I'm just bitching.
Sorry to hear that, Sharei x.x