No Heat, Hot Water For 18 Cincinnati Families Living In Building Facing Foreclosure

In Cincinnati, Ohio, WLWT-TV Channel 5 reports:

• It's going to be a cold Christmas for 18 families in Avondale because their furnace has been broken for three months and the soonest it'll be fixed is New Year's. "It’s just real cold in this building, but we survive. To us, we're all right. We leave the oven on all night,” apartment resident Lake McCowan said. The McCowan family said they've been forced to boil water and leave the oven on all night.

• They know it’s a fire hazard, they even have a scorched floor to prove it, but they said they don’t have a choice. They said the building's owner hasn't paid his mortgage in about six months and as it heads into foreclosure [...].

For more, see Avondale Apartment Complex Hasn't Had Heat In Three Months (Families Keep Ovens On, Use Space Heaters To Stay Warm). Go here for WLWT-TV video. ThetaTenantRentSkimming