If a landlord has a legally binding Tennant agreement where the landlord pays for a reasonable amount of heat in an apartment or rented house or duplex, and if the landlord can not afford to pay for home heating fuel anymore because of the high prices, then what?
I was researching the lowest priced multi-family homes in Vermont, there’s one for $99K in Brattleboro and other low priced homes in Springfield and Rutland. I was trying to convince my 41 year old niece in California, with her seven year old daughter, who recently got divorced, to move to Vermont. I showed her ads for Teachers wanted, she has her Masters degree in special education from a University in Massachusetts. She has no blood relatives in California, other than her own daughter. She has relatives in Vermont, including her cousins, and Aunt in Rutland who was a Teacher for many years. I showed her online information about how Teachers in Vermont can apply for a Grant for a downpayment for a house. I told her about the housing shortage, and how she could buy a multi-family house and rent rooms to teaching assistants or other lower income hard working Vermonters, in order to meet all the costs of owning a home.
Then, I saw how low my fuel tank in my little house is. I look at it when I go to the basement to do my laundry. I was so careful the past couple months, keeping the temperature at 60 to 65 degrees most of the time. I called my fuel supplier and I had a little fuel assistance left, but they require a 100 gallon delivery. I had to pay $5.50 a gallon to meet the delivery requirement. I calculated my budget-teeny. I counted my cans of vegetables, can fruit juice of questionable nutritional value, tuna and bags of rice, and dried beans. I’m fine, everything is good.
I emailed my niece about how the price of home heating fuel is now $5.5o a gallon. NO RESPONSE FROM HER.
Now, instead of a few emails a day from her, thinking about my suggestions, my email box is empty. Not one more word from her.
She’s probably at the beach, the beaches are warm and sunny right now in California.
