Your first priority is to have the heating system repaired so that it maintains the temperature in the unit without having to use the fire place.If you do not want to maintain the fire place inform the tenant that you will allow him out of his lease.

(Note to investor: I know you feel like your acting stupid as a real estate investor when you do that technique above, but what you are doing is raising the emotional temperature of the seller. 

Birmingham, Alabama has a warm humid temperate climate with hot summers and no dry season.Over the course of a year, the temperature typically varies from 33°F to 90°F and is rarely below 20°For above 96°F. 

It lets each individual maintain there own preferred air temperature.  

It was -20F and the highest affordable temperature was 58F.

Just take a visit here and take the temperature of how residents talk about their city, and you'll see that there has been a major attitude change.

Temperature controlled, no lazy inspections, I think it’s just done better all around.

Ask current manager for the owner and tenant ledgers Contact current tenants to gauge their temperature and to see if they need anything. 

I'm not completely clear on how these things work.Although this summer has been unusually hot, my experience as someone who was born and raised in the PNW is that the mild temperatures in summer and winter are usually a great selling point for out-of-staters who move to the area.Go 'Hawks!

In addition, he keeps leaving that door between the common area and the enclosed porch open, causing temperatures to further drop in that room.Now, he is complaining now that because I had the electrician disconnect his shower-head water heater  he can not take showers and has to go to his mothers house as the water will not stay warm long enough.