Landlord: No heat? Use your ovens!!

[Blue_Tires]

The city plans to go to court today to request an emergency repair order for a Lincoln Park high-rise apartment building whose residents are without heat and hot water because of a blocked chimney that allowed carbon monoxide levels to build.

The city's Buildings Department will ask a judge to appoint a receiver to take over repairs at the 14-story building at 2738 N. Pine Grove Ave., a department official told WGN-TV this morning. Building inspectors also will be sent to the site this morning, he said.

Owners of the building will be billed for the repairs, he said.

A letter from the property manager to building residents had said it could be two to three weeks before necessary repairs are made and heat is restored. The letter suggested that residents boil water for bathing, buy electric space heaters and "turn your oven on to supplement heat as needed."


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-city-to-go-to-court-on-lincoln-park-highrise-without-heat-hot-water-20120126,0,6733131.story

[HopeHoops]

1. Oh yeah. That's safe.

[gkhouston]

2. I knew a woman who did it when she was in college. She ate a *lot* of baked potatoes. n/t

[bigmonkey]

3. That's a fairly fancy part of town!

Strange.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. why not require the landlord to buy the space heaters?