By DAVID GREENE

This week we asked readers if they have heat and hot water problems as temperatures drop and how fast their landlords make needed repairs.

I’m a landlord and I have people that are Section 8 and I have to take them to court to get them to pay me my rent. I have to provide heat and hot water and a roof over their heads and they still don’t make their co-payments. So I take them to court and they don’t want to move out.
Edwin L. Santana
Tremont

 

 

It’s very difficult because my landlord refuses to give me heat or work with me on any situation. She tells me she’s not giving me heat because of damage to her apartment due to a water leak from upstairs. So she turns off the heat, she controls it from her home in upstate New York.
Marie Galarza
Morris Park

 

 

It’s very difficult for me to reach my landlord even when I call the office. The super wants me to fill out a complaint form and put it in the little box, but they never return your call. Even the elevator is broken. It’s management trying to save money and laziness.|
Naida Candelaria
Soundview

 

 

 

First of all it would be difficult because the super doesn’t reply. When I finally get in contact with him, he tells me I have to go through the landlord and fill out a report and once I contact the landlord with all the complaints, then I have to wait another week for them to come and check it out and it’s another week before they can fix it.
Gino Brown
Tremont

 

 

My landlord keeps saying the heat is on when we have no heat. He doesn’t even live there so he doesn’t know what’s going on. But if you call 311 he doesn’t like it and he will try and throw you out of the building. I have to wear a hat, gloves and a scarf to keep warm and I turn the oven on for a little bit of warmth.
Myra Colon
Crotona