What do i do about the high heat in my rental that my landlord won't fix.it's affecting my high blood pressure?

[bachir93]

we live in the lansing michigan area...we pay $175 a month for our heat and water to be "included"...the 6 unit building has a boiler that pushes the steam to the radiators...at times it gets over 90 degrees in our place...all the 6 units get extremely hot as well...we have to have our window open even in the middle of the night when it is -28 degrees to get the heat down to 79 degrees...the landlord will not do anything about it and tell us that we are lying...well, a few times this winter season the radiators will be off for 2-3 days making it very cold in here...i can't prove it, but i think the "slumlord" gets tired of people saying it is too hot in here and comes and just shuts of the boiler to "teach us a lesson!?!?"...well, we woke up yesterday and our little thermometer we bought said it was 44 degrees in the apartment...i was on my last straw...there are no agencies in this area to help the tennent...i called the fire dept to talk to the building inspecters...they said they could send him a letter to keep the minimum temp to 68...well, that would take days and that wouldn't mean the landlord would still take care of it...as a last resort i called the city police dpt...they sent an officer...at first he told me that it was a civil matter...i told him everything and he decided to do something...he called the people he knew at the fire dpt/inspectors...they agreed to call the landlord...they basicly told him that he will have to maintain the minimum temp, or they will start writting him tickets for whatever violations that come up on the property...wow!!!...well, the landlord of course got the heat going, but now it is back to 90 degrees in here...i was alread told by the inspectors that there is nothing in the books about the temp being too hot in a apartment in michigan...so it could be 115 degrees in here and the landlord is ok as far as the law goes...ok-my question is if there is anything we can do to get the heat down due to health reasons?...i have uncontrollable high blood pressure for which i am on meds for...when i am in very uncomfortable heat it sky rockets...(i moved back to michigan from phoenix arizona to be in a cooler climate)...do i just have to risk a stroke and heart attack and just feel sick all the time?...it seems like there is something that can be done!?!?...

[barnett]

Call the states Attorney generals office file a complaint! Do you have a local news service that does stories like this? We do in Portland Oregon area they go out with a team and confront the owner and ask why he wont take care of matter! Have you asked someone to look at the Radiators is there a temp control on it? I assume you want to keep living there? Get proactive quit complaining to him you have given your chance. Try BBB write letters to congressman...Quit being a victim!

[emmanuil54]

Simple answer.Move out and get something else with a decent landlord.

[shen86]

Oh you again.

Don't you get tired of cutting and pasting this daily?

You will be hard pressed to prove that 90 degrees is a harmful temp. It will not cause stroke. It will not cause a heart attack.

Check your Prozac meds, you dosage is not doing the trick.