Apartment renters are frustrated with heat intolerance and inadequate cooling

“A majority of units in my apartment complex lost power twice in the last couple days. I’m in a location with unusually high temperatures the last couple months. The apartment units do not come with ac but most of us have our own portable units. I can assume the fuses are being blown from too much power being used from everyone’s ac. Management sent this message basically just saying don’t use your ac anymore. Obviously this is a terrible solution, but I am curious if management can even enforce”

“If you’re in LA.. a law passed recently that states if your apartment gets more than like 83/84° (can’t remember which one) the landlord has to install ac.”

“I just need to vent about the absolute nightmare that is my apartment’s design. Our complex has this bizarre layout where all of the bedrooms face a shared interior patio. Basically, everyone’s bedroom windows are lined up around this square patio that everyone has to walk through. It is terrible for privacy, noise and apparently air quality I’ve been struggling with my electric bill because I have two portable AC units, and running them is INSANE! My most recent bill was $545, which I have neve”

I keep my apartment around 24° and just layer.

“Tenants complaining that AC, which is set on 72, feels hot today (cause it’s in the lower 60s outside) but it normally feels cool (when it’s in the 80s outside). 🤷‍♂️ submitted by /u/markjack101 [link] [comments]”

“Most decent portable ac units are 500ish or more. Add a few fans 100 each there's roughly 800 close to 900. It was only path to get some temp relief. Landlords are also asked to be responsible for tenants behavior or held accountable. If u think this is unfair jus attempt a legit eviction and that will take longer and the entirety of that expense no rent being paid court costs legal fees etc and then even with a judgement still cannot collect what already owed. Be nice if evictions could be”

“I'm only in the south Florida one week out of every month and I'm tired of paying for hotels or sleeping on my brothers couch. I pay a quarter of his rent so I'd like to make it as comfortable as possible. I bought this portable AC and I cut a hole into the styrofoam behind it for the hot air exhaust. No matter what I do it still feels humid as f***. I looked online for a bunch of styrofoam wall pieces at least 2 in thick because I don't know if that's the best or cheapest op”

“Depends where it’s at if it’s in a hot climate state such as Florida it is and when I had air conditioner go out it was replaced in two days.”

“I’ve been staying with a friend who’s renting a house in South Florida and feeling unwell/exhausted since I’ve been here. My Wave Mini shows VOCs rise every morning, spiking midday at 2-3k before tapering back down through the afternoon. I took a look at the AC closet a couple days ago (went to change the filter) and found this. Are those refrigerant lines supposed to be exposed like that? There’s also a hole in the ceiling of the AC closet with wires coming out, maybe used to be a light fixture”

“I live in Los Angeles and I’m on the south side, fifth floor. I know heat rises but damn! This August heatwave killed us and we had the AC going often…which lead to a $540 DWP for our two month billing cycle. I have a standing fan in my room with the window open at night but at 11:43 pm it is 81 in the apartment and 78 in my room. During the day, even with blinds closed, it’s high 70s. My friend lives in downtown on the 14th floor and said turning the fan on helps him. I set it and left for work”

“As the title says, my ac has been STRUGGLING to keep up with this Oklahoma heat. I’m a first time renter and my apartment has been getting up to 82-85 degrees on a daily basis from about 11am until 10-11pm when it eventually cools down. I’ve put in a work ticket, they came and “looked at it” (They just looked at my thermostat. Literally.) and told me there wasn’t anything they could do about it. I don’t know what to do. I’m gonna put in another ticket on Tuesday after labor day but I highly doub”

“me and my brother just moved into our first apartment and I was mainly wanting to know for anyone who lives on the third floor of a three-story building what temperature do y’all keep the apartment to maintain low electric bill for context the first two days move-in day and the next day the apartment had no AC and was 93 when we moved in and I don’t really know much about apartment living but would like to know tips to keep the electric bill low thank you submitted by /u/Paulito113 [”

“Hello! I have been having consistent problems with the temperature in my apartment for the last year but it has progressively worsened over the last few months. I keep it on the same settings 24/7 yet it continuously changes, sometimes getting to 10-15 degrees above the set temperature. A few days ago, it almost got to 90 in the unit despite it being set to 75 like always. Maintenance has came many times and just continuously resets it or messes with something on the roof or in my unit closet, b”

“Looking for advice about an apartment maintenance issue because we’re not really sure what we’re supposed to do at this point. Our apartment has radiant floor heating, and today our apartment got up to almost 90°F inside . Our thermostat is completely OFF , but the floors are still noticeably hot and seem to be actively heating the apartment. The actual heating/boiler equipment is in a separate utility room that we don’t have access to, so there isn’t anything we can safely shut off ourselves. W”

“Basically the title but I live in a first floor 900 sq ft apartment in Jersey and my living room is also same room as my kitchen and I just bought a tempPro and it’s been on for a day… it’s saying humidity is 70%. It starts dropping when the AC kicks on to about 65-66 and then once AC stops running it goes back up to 70 I also have a TempPro in my bedroom which is a separate closed off room and smaller sq ft than the combined living area/kitchen and the humidity sits at 67 and I have a really ti”

“I’m trying to make a rental apartment more comfortable during hot weather without making permanent changes....some things help a little, but I’m trying to figure out what actually makes a noticeable difference....For people who dealt with a hot apartment, especially bedrooms that stay warm at night, what worked best for you:-- shading, airflow changes, portable cooling or something else??? submitted by /u/dark_reality_00 [link] [comments]”

“Hey guys. It's 104/105° in texas right now. My apartment is at 88° according to the thermostat. When the thermostat reads anything above 80 the cool air it blows turns into warm air. Is that normal? It is an older apartment but it seems like ok the only one having this issue the other residents around me aren't. I've had maintenance out so many times before and they keep saying that it's going to be a 20° difference and I understand that. However what irks me is that they say the”

“Every summer my bedroom does this annoying thing where the bed feels fine when I first lie down, then a couple hours later it feels warm and kind of sticky. It is not like the room is boiling. It is more that the air does not move well, the mattress holds heat, and the sheets start feeling heavier than they did at bedtime. If I take too many layers off, I get cold, so I keep doing this half-asleep blanket negotiation every night. I am not really looking for a magic cooling product. I am just try”

“Hi yall I’m a first time renter - ground floor 1br 1 bath and a kitchen/dining area/living room combo. I have a slider door and a bedroom mirror that faces the southwest and it feels like I’m an ant under a microscope all the time. I have a balcony above the slider door so that helps with the sun but I can’t even sleep in my bedroom anymore because it’s so insanely hot and humid no matter how I Soulja boy crank that AC. My apartment is approximately 700sq/ft and has been at 60-78% humidity all s”

“I moved into my (UK) rented top floor flat a few days ago and it’s absolutely unbearable to sleep in. there’s high ceilings (and windows, that can’t be opened, or the blinds shut) and only one window on the floor downstairs. (which leads into a main road, city centre, VERY loud until early morning) I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations of what I can do to help? i‘ve never lived in a flat before, and was not expecting this. I was warned it gets a little hotter but it literally left li”

“Apartment built in 20’s, I think. I have caulked windows shut to keep hot air out, window tint to keep the hot air out, and installed a window unit. My apartment sits at 80° all day. My landlord says ac functions perfectly fine since it is technically 20° below outdoor temperature. It’s 100° with heat index of 110° where I live. Other tenants do not have this issue so it’s extremely frustrating that we have to do deal with this issue. Does anyone have advice or help? submitted by /u/”

“Just moved to a new 1-bedroom single-floor apartment. Never had window units in my life. I stay on north Florida, where it's very humid. I'm worried if I run both units all day to keep the house cool, it's going to run up the light bill. With Central ac in my last place I never had to worry about a light bill being over 230 a month. The ac would shut off on its own. With these, there are only timers, and then you have to turn them back on yourself. Unless I'm not working them pro”

“I live in apartment renting, currently have windows that slide to the side Good small efficent ac for just a room that wont fall out of the window? submitted by /u/leader425 [link] [comments]”

“Hi all, I wanted to come here and get some advice. I've recently moved into an apartment, and I've noticed that the master bedroom is always roughly 4 degrees warmer than the rest of the apartment. Any other room wouldn't be too big of an issue, but if I want to sleep comfortably I end up cooling my apartment much lower than I would typically need. I have contacted maintenance about this issue, but they mentioned that the room is likely too large to be properly cooled by this one ven”

“So I've been posting about this quite a lot in this subreddit but my room is hot as hell. I didn't realize that the apartment had such a major heating problem before I accepted it. My roommate told me that we had a thermostat, and I thought that it worked. But the vent in my room is extremely weak and we've had Property Management come to our apartment a couple of times in the past. Even before I started renting. He told me that if they feel just a little bit of air coming out of the”

“I’m unsure if this is worth putting in a work order for at my apartment, but our thermostat doesn’t really accurately control the temp in my apartment. The weird thing is that it seems the apartment can either be under 68F or up around 76F, but I can’t get it to consistently anything in between. The air keeps running consistently through the night and gets down to 66 despite being set for a temp over 70 and set on auto and not fully running? I know with hot weather that some variation is expecte”

“Hello! I'm a home owner and renting out the extra rooms in a 3b2b, and one of my tenants sent me a message saying that their room was super hot. After putting thermometers in their rooms that I can monitor, I found that their rooms at the corners of the house are much warmer than what my thermostat is set to (For example, the thermostat is currently set to 68 but their rooms are around 74 degrees Fahrenheit), but the general area was around the right temperature consistently. I've checke”

“AITAH in this situation? I have been living in my flat for 2 years now. Im on the top level, and the heat is unbearable honestly. Even at night, it’s incredibly hot. I’ve tried just opening my window, but that still doesn’t make me less hot. Bc of that i SOMETIMES turn on the ac. The woman who’s my downstairs neighbor came up to my door, to ask me if i would mind not using the ac between 10pm-5am. I told her that yeah i won’t be using it always, but if it is too hot, i will sometimes turn it on.”

My husband and I are at a loss with our apartment AC, and our complex manager keeps saying it’s “just summer.” We live in SE Texas in a 790 sq. ft. upstairs…

“Hello, this might not be the best place to ask this question but Im interested in a studio apartment at this six floor apartment building and when I got there i could definitely feel the heat more than in the lower floors (especially now in summer). I was wondering if anyone has lived on the last floor of any building and how the experience was/is in dealing with the heat you get from living there. There is an a/c in the studio fyi. submitted by /u/Dry-City8766 [link] [comments”

“I'm in a third floor apartment with a South facing sunroom. It's currently 10:30 pm and 86F in here and 80F outside. Maintenance says there's nothing they can do. AC in ceiling pours waters every day. The unit outside has water around it from freezing and melting. They said the freon is good and everything is working properly. I pay way too much money between rent and electricity to be living this way and I need help. This looks like shit. I'm an electrician and good with tools s”

“Hi! I’ve been living in my apartment nearly 5 years now and during that time whenever it’s hot it’s humid inside my apartment. (The a/c can’t keep up with the heat and it’s regularly 70-80 in here when it’s 68 or higher out). Well this summer it’s obviously been brutal so until 2 wks ago it was insanely humid inside. They bought us a portable a/c to help cool us down since it was 88-90s inside. Stating there’s not much they can do because we face the sun. But it didn’t stop the walls from being”

I live in a 2 bedroom apartment and it seems that my place will never reach under 76° until it is sub 90° at night. The vents blow cool air, but it…

“Please help, I have reached out to my landlord but no reply. She helped me turn the AC back on previously but IDK how to work this thing. I'm a travel nurse in dire need of cool air for better sleep for work tomorrow. No clue what the holds mean! submitted by /u/sexynursekelley [link] [comments]”

“So the other place is twice the square footage for only about 1/3 more? You might be too high for your area. No central air is a bit of a biggie too.”

“My wife is worried we might've listed it too high... there's been a couple showings but no applications yet... we're putting in an AC for the apartment but otherwise no central air. One bedroom one bathroom... For context there's an another property someone else has listed thru our property manager in the neighborhood that is 1,210 square feet 2 bedroom/1 bathroom for $1,350 submitted by /u/Minute_Ad_5461 [link] [comments]”

“I don't know why this summer is so hot. My apartment feels like an oven every afternoon. Once, I just went out to buy a drink, and when I came back, it felt like someone was running a giant hairdryer. My neighbor suggested that maybe my air conditioning system wasn't working properly. He's right. I have a window air conditioner in my bedroom, which I've wanted to replace for a while because it's incredibly loud every night, like a truck parked next to my bed. Forgive my exagg”

“My apartment doesn’t allow true AC (EDIT: A HIGH QUALITY WINDOW UNIT IS NOT ALLOWED) so I only have a portable air conditioner right now, and it doesn’t work very well and is also really loud so I try to keep it turned off (I HATE how it sounds). Last night I was getting really dizzy despite eating / hydrating enough and could NOT sleep for the life of me. Today was scarier, I woke up and progressively got more dizzy and nauseous today; to the point where it felt like I was gonna throw up. It wa”

“I need all the tips and help I can get! I live in an older apartment building (built around 1987) on the third floor, and no matter what I do, it’s hot as hell in here. My unit has two in-wall AC units—one in the living room and one in the bedroom. Maintenance has cleaned the bedroom unit and even replaced the living room unit because the old one was broken. I keep all the blinds closed, use minimal lighting, and have multiple fans running (including one that rotates 360°), but my apartment stil”