Landlords delay fixing broken AC in summer

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“Moved into a place that was being worked on. They said they would clean it and AC worked They did not clean it at all, ac is not working and they tried to fix it. I got it mostly for the location but so frustrating as now they aren’t going to clean it since the spots on the counter have to be painted over. Still smells like someone smoked in it. Signed the lease last Wednesday, was supposed to move in Friday. So frustrated as I’m in Az and it’s 90 degrees in the apartment submitted by &#32”

“I hate living in this complex and how stupid our landlord is. It’s over 96 in SoCal and she decides now is the perfect time for plumbing repairs and this is where she places the notices. The stairs go down to the parking garage. We have people who are disabled who don’t use these stairs and had no idea the water was being turned off. I have a 3 month old baby (and an 8 yo who is at school) and we have been inside mainly to avoid the heat with our portable ac on. I’m livid. This is typical of our”

“I rent a studio that's an attached add-on to a house. I've been complaining to my landlord about my 15A circuit that kept tripping due to a portable AC competing with a fridge. I asked for access to the breaker panel so I could at least restore power in the event that I forgot to turn off my AC before turning on my blow dryer. His solution was to instead have a mini split installed. The location of where they put it is really annoying to me. I have my bed and my couch installed on the ba”

“This is my first time living in apartment, I moved to the city for school. My apartment no notice turned off the chiller the other day and it has been unbearable for me to say the least. I didn’t even know what a chiller was initially or that it even existed to be honest. They sent out an email saying they had complaints it was cold and are turning it off until next summer, the rules allow them to shut it off Oct 1st. Now I’m unsure if anyone actually complained because ITS STILL WARM OUT! But I”

“For some context, I’ve lived in around 10 apartments in my lifetime. Some good, some bad, some crappy, and some with ACs that genuinely just die however, I’ve lived in my current apartment for about six months now and this high pitched whirring noise has been present since the day we stepped into the unit. I notated it on the move-in checklist as something that might need to be addressed since I’ve never heard an AC make the sound before, but the maintenance guy looked at me and my mom like we w”

“In mid-May, our apartment's AC stopped working completely. It took them three weeks to figure out what was wrong after sending out contractors and eventually replacing a coil, the compressor and (I think) capacitor. They also flushed the drain line and replaced our air filter (after I asked them to). Since then, I've noticed a rumbling noise and can feel our upstairs (where the unit is located) physically vibrate a bit. Sometimes it's more noticeable, like when it starts and stops. T”

“I'm sorry if this is the wrong sub, it's the one I found that most likely aligns with my current issue. I am living in an apartment complex and tried to report an issue with my ac not cooling but when a maintenance worker came out he used a handheld thermometer and told me that my thermostat was reading wrong. He looked at it and at the part in the utility closet and basically said it was all good and if my electric bill was too high to just ask my parents for money. Told me everyone&#39”

“Renting an apartment with a through-the-wall AC unit that must be from the 90s. Every summer, it stops blowing cold and the landlord sends someone to 'recharge it'. It works for a few months, then dies again. This is the third year in a row. As tenants, is there anything we can say or do, or is this just the life of old AC? submitted by /u/Civil_Visit_7446 [link] [comments]”

“So this has been an ongoing issue in my apartment for the past couple of months where the A/C has stopped working. Today I called and the manager and she notified maintenance guy. Its been 3 hours. I think this guy has no clue what he’s doing. The only thing he does is add freon. I have a feeling theres a leak but I know nothing about HVAC . It works for a few days and then goes back to being hot. Changed the batteries on the thermostat maybe a couple weeks ago so I know its not that. Really don”

“Last winter I noticed my condo's air conditioner wasn't working properly after living here for 6 years. I waited until the summer heat waves started hitting to look into the issue. The temperature was consistently at 75-78F with no relief. First it was the motor that needed replacing. Done. No improvement. Technician returned again. Next the coils needed replacing. Done. Minimal improvement. Now we're persistently at 72-73F. Technician returned again. They had no idea why it wasn&#39”

“caption and photo says it all. i also left a bunch of my crap there and they’re trying to charge me for that because it was IMPOSSIBLE to work and load boxes inside of an over 100 degree unit. just to be clear my AC was broken for an entire month —i must’ve made 20 plus maintenance calls and got maybe 3 replies. i showed up physically to their office multiple times driving an hour each way and conveniently the person there either couldn’t help me or WASNT there. i camped out there for two hours”

“i live in a reputably bad apartment complex near orlando, fl (wont name….for now) but ever since i moved in, it has been nothing but nonstop problems. not even a week into living there, we got flooded through our kitchen sink getting backed up from our upstairs neighbours (who flooded us AGAIN recently, almost ruining my boyfriend’s $2k PC and caused us to rearrange our house), CONSTANT A/C issues (and we havent had A/C in over a month! they gave us a shitty little unit in my living room, which”

Hello all. My roommate (21M) and I (23M) have lived in our first apartment for a little over a year. For the first 8 months or so it was fine, but for…

“Hello — I’m a renter in a 1bd apartment with my husband and dog. At the start of summer (June) I asked our landlord to send someone to service our HVAC because it wasn’t properly cooling the apt. The tech said there’s a leak and added refrigerant. He said it’s an older unit. It’s Sept now. It’s still hot out and I noticed it’s not able to properly cool the apt again. I doubt my landlord wants to get a new unit, but I’m going to text him anyway that we likely need more refrigerant. My questions:”

“For context I live in Austin Texas, its been over 100° no issues before that regarding this post i know there is other issues but i am broke and haven't been able to figure out how to fix everything, the house was built in the 60s and i do not know when the unit was set, i noticed the past 2 weeks the unit keeps running and it does not cool, i cannot see a frozen pipe outside, the outside fan thing runs, the unit inside makes a noise like air is passing but not the cooling system if that mak”

“Hello everyone, My ac has been making loud noises for a bit, and I contacted my landlord but nothing was done. I am not in the financial position to pay for repairs or any servicing on my own (plus not part of my duties as per rental contract) , so my hands were tied. Yesterday it made very loud noises whenever it would turn on to blow cold air; nevertheless it still cooled. I went to check on it and the air filter was *completely* frozen. Ive never seen anything like that. I looked it up and it”

“I’ve lived in this apartment for a few years now. This past summer i’ve had several issues with my AC not working. Back in June it wasn’t cooling my apartment due to constant frozen coils, which after multiple maintenance requests HVAC finally came out to fix it. fast forward to now, a terrible foul odor would come out the vents anytime the AC kicked on (like moldy socks on steroids). I put in a maintenance request and they told me to shut my AC off and they put in a request for a new AC all tog”

“Apartment AC issue — low airflow + water? I've had ongoing AC problems in my ~900 sq ft apartment in the DFW area. The system blows cold air but with very weak airflow (won't even flow a peice of paper it's so weak) and won't maintain the thermostat temperature. The filter is new, and they've already repaired/replaced multiple components, including the indoor unit/fan. All the original piping is there (2008 - 2010 build) We've been using two window units to stay comfortab”

“So my AC has been broken for ... Going on 5 days. Line leaked out all the freeon. Owner is doing everything he can to get me fixed but nobody has the damn part. He even paid for my hotel so I can at least get a decent night's sleep once. Anyway, I survived going from Wa to OH. PROBLEM IS, now im driving to (you guessed it) California. Through Arizona of course. Anyway, owner said I should stop by Walmart and get an ac unit. So I did this morning and basically the only options were, a full on”

“Hi everyone! I put in a maintenance request on the 20th that my ac was broken and leaking water. Maintenance guy came in on Tuesday the 25th and said we need a new AC and put in an order. Today is the 27th and there is still no AC. I have POTS and other medical conditions including taking medication that makes me severely heat intolerant. If I do not get a new AC tomorrow I have to wait at least until Monday for a new one. Does anyone have any tips on how to stay cool or what to do? Rn all I can”

“My apartment maintenance people came around to fix my AC, since it's been out for like 5 days now. Their comment in the work order on the apartment website was 'capacitor blew and we added freon, very old unit. If we have other issues we will need to replace this unit is about 30years old.' I came home and it was 93 in the apartment when the thermostat was set to 80 (it's 90 out). My building manager told me to put in another work order to let them know it was still not working,”

“Obviously I have been trying to do my own research as well, I want to see if I am missing anything or going about this the right way. Note that this would be California laws. My lease started on the 21st, I did not notice the AC was not working at that time as I came in earlier in the day. I submitted an urgent maintenance request on Saturday because I realized that it wasn’t working. I hear from maintenance on the 23rd that a tech is coming on the 24th. Long story short tech cannot come out til”

“I've been having an AC issue for about 3 weeks and I'm looking for advice because it honestly seems like it'll never be fixed. 3 weeks ago I came home and my apartment was 95 degrees; the AC was blowing lukewarm air but not cooling. The next day my landlord checked it and said a breaker had tripped and he flipped it back. A week later, it trips again. Then 2 days later, it trips again. Now it trips about once a day, usually in the mornings. My landlord has had HVAC techs out a few ti”

“As the title says I live in a newer apartment building and haven't had A/C for over a month. Since beginning of July and now we're almost to the end of August. In the beginning maintenance lied about it being in process to get fixed so I got rhe manager involved. I have 2 portable units running but on hot days they cannot keep up so I have to leave where I live all day until the night. My apartment is now becoming infested with silver fish and ants. I live in a very humid and hot state a”

“any recommendations for taking action with my apartment complex not fixing my ac? it’s been ~84 degrees in my apartment every afternoon all the way through the night until the middle of the night. according to denton county renter laws it must cool to 20 degrees below the temperature outside. i have multiple examples of photographic evidence of times where it has been like 95 outside and 82 inside which is kinda crazy. i know it’s hot outside and it’s gonna be warmer than average but they’ve com”

“Hi, I'm moving into a new townhouse-style apartment. It's a condo that they had to sell as a rental, and it has a lot of features you usually find in houses. Now that we have the keys I learned that our central AC unit has been running without a filter installed. It has only been a few days since we got the keys, no time to buy a filter yet, but I have a strong suspicion it has been running for months this way. If I had to bet, there was no filter in there a month and a half ago when we”

“y’know when it’s hot and you’re working a bunch of jobs and then you find a pool of water behind the couch and oh yeah it turns out you’re ac is leaking water and is broken. then I tell the landlord that and they say they’ll get the maintenance to stop by and fix it tomorrow but tomorrow comes a the next day and when I turn it on shits still broken and water getting fucking everywhere. my apartment is hot and the landlord didn’t tell me until today that the maintenance people are on vacation and”