I just moved into a rent stabilized apartment, and the week I did is when the temperatures dropped into the 30s
The apartment has the tenants paying for all gas & electricity
The heat is central air. Two of the bedrooms are in the basement. The other two bedrooms have 50+ square inches of window space.
When I set the thermostat to 75º, the basement rooms never read above 55º. The upstairs bedrooms will briefly reach that temperature, but then quickly drop to 65º as soon as the thermostat thinks the house is warm enough.
I'm not quite sure what to do about this. Using electric heaters will cost a fortune each month, and there's no guarantees it will even work. But the heating system the landlord has installed cannot possibly heat up all of the bedrooms to livable temperatures.
I know landlords have a responsibility to provide 68º heat during the day and 62º at night. I'm not sure how this responsibility plays when tenants are responsible for paying the gas
& electric bills, and the heating system the landlord has installed is not sufficient?
What recourses do I have here?