https://castelblanco.com/renters-rights-air-conditioning-california/

Seems like California doesn’t require AC for habitability, but mandates landlord repair and maintenance if the service was provided when the lease was signed and the tenant moved in. Sounds like since you have AC, your landlord is required to provide it to at least one of the tenants unless it was newly installed.

It is a lawyer summary instead of the code, but feel free to dig into the California legal code if you want to argue back.

You wanted ideas of how it could happen and I gave the possible explanation. If you want to argue in front of the judge that an open window isn’t enough of a waste to warrant eviction, go on ahead.

No. There may be other ways. They can look up the law and there might be an out for opening a window. I don’t know. However, based on the limited information given to me, this is likely the excuse given by the landlord to kick out OP.

You’re right, OP likely isn’t responsible for AC. That’s why the owner controls the AC, likely because they are legally required to provide AC. That’s what I said originally.

However, it is usually written into the law that tenants can’t waste landlord provided utilities, and this sounds like the argument that the landlord is making to the town. It sounds like this is just an excuse for the landlord to kick OP out, but this isn’t an argument that I’m making is good.

You keep mixing me up with the landlord.

Edit: It turns out I am somewhat wrong. CA law requires that, if AC is provided, it must be restored by the landlord in case the AC breaks at the landlord’s cost alone. Tenants are legally able to withhold rent due to a broken AC.

Therefore, there is no legal way for OP as a tenant to take over AC costs.

I haven’t read the agreement, in part because OP didn’t provide it. I’m just providing a probable means in which the landlord could be using in order to push OP out on the street.

A requirement to provide a means of air conditioning is common in the warmer parts of the USA; it is a reason why the summer increased death toll stays so low despite lethal summer temperatures. It also depends on how the law is written; someone else would need to read the law to see if opening a window is considered acceptable or not.

And for everyone making trying to make a moral argument to me about this, I’m not making a moral argument. I’m trying to explain the possible legal mechanism that is occurring where the landlord is trying to push out OP as a way for OP to look at ways to defend themselves.

Your lease may not specifically say that you have to keep windows closed, but it is likely that there is a requirement for the landlord to provide air conditioning. Requirements like this usually have a stipulation that the renter not waste the provided utility. That’s what your landlord is likely dinging you with, since the landlord is providing AC.

The only way to deal with it is that you’d have to sign off on taking ownership of the air conditioning. However, since it sounds like you have roommates given your fear of catching COVID at home, that doesn’t seem likely.

It also seems likely that this is going to follow you to whatever rental living arraignment you have. Unless you are contractually taking full ownership of providing air conditioning to a liveable temperature, you’re going to run into someone telling to keep the windows closed.

What other animal eats hot food? Has it ever been something to select for?

It was delayed two years because the game is stuck in dev hell. It doesn’t matter how fast you’re going if you can’t steer in the right direction.

It is more an explanation as to why the economy is doing well despite the overwhelming majority seeing flat or negative spending.

That’s the next cut coming next week.

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Yeah, we had a warlock meet his patron. It was not a good time.

Is it garlic NaN?

This sort of requirement comes up in civil engineering all the time.

Your job may include running finite element models (FEM) and the office uses STAAD. When getting new candidates, the preference will be like this: those who have used STAAD, those who have used several other FEM programs, those who have used one FEM program, and those who don’t. Usually, it gets presented as requiring FEM experience with a preference to STAAD.

There may even be cases where a program may be different enough that the requirement is knowledge in that program. For instance, Bentley’s Open Roads is considered to be very different from AutoDesk Civil 3D to the point where Civil 3D experience only gets considered if there is no better applicant even though the two software packages do mostly the same thing.

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It is air conditioning. It just happens to be dumping the energy into the river instead of the air.

New systems like this in the USA are illegal despite how energy efficient it is.

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Did your mom teach you? Because she’s really talented.

How is he doing that with his mouth?