Is there a law that says an apartment building landlord has to turn on the heat by October 15th?
There is no state law for landlords or property managers that mandates when heat should be turned on. State law enables local units of government to adopt a local housing code to regulate when heat must be provided and to what temperature level. Check with your city or county government offices to see if they have adopted such a code and if there are any heating rules that apply to residential rental property. A room thermometer placed away from a window or any source of heat can give you a reasonable measure of the real temperature in your residence. Tell your landlord or property manager what the indoor temperature is and ask them to turn up the heat to a comfortable level. Make sure that objects are not blocking heat ducts and that heat-generating electronics such as televisions are not located near a thermostat. These scenarios will skew the delivery of heat to your apartment. For seniors in particular the ability to control internal body temperature declines with age, and there is
