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[Undertoad]

Sweetie,

Here is the thread where your GAS furnace died, you got a NEW one, and your landlord provided you electric space heaters as a temporary alternative, which you used, although you found them to be expensive.

Originally Posted by samiam

Well, last week my furnace decided to die. It made a bunch of weird, loud, clicking sounds and gave up the ghost. I called up the Slumlords and left a message that the furnace was no longer of this world and that I was getting pretty cold. This was over the weekend, and I didn't hear anything back from them until Monday (I wore lots of sweaters, meanwhile).

Monday morning, Mrs Slumlord calls me up all chirpy and tells me that she talked with a friend who works for an outfit funded by the state that helps low income people (ie me) who have heating emergencies during the winter months. In fact Mrs. Slumlord's office is in the very same building as the state outfit, and her friend had given her the application forms to give me to fill out to apply for emergency help as a low income, disabled person.

Mrs. Slumlord generously added that while we were waiting for the state to come through with a new furnace, Mr. Slumlord would drop off a couple of those oil filled heating thingies that run off electricity. (Electric bills here are listed in krugerrands, btw).

[IamSam]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Sweetie,

Here is the thread where your GAS furnace died, you got a NEW one, and your landlord provided you electric space heaters as a temporary alternative, which you used, although you found them to be expensive.

Ah, Shugah,

That winter was a real bitch for us folks out here in western Colorado. I remember it well. You know what the real shit kicker was? A previous tenant had installed a nice little wood burner in the living room, and I wasn't allowed to use it. In all the years that stove had been there and folks had been burning juniper in it and staying toasty warm, Slumlord never bothered to have the chimney checked for creosote build-up or have it cleaned. The entire 4-plex probably would have burned down faster than you could say "hell fire" if I tried to light so much as a wooden match in that stove's fuel box.