Expectations regarding home heat when renting?

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Photo number 7 shows some kind of fireplace in the kitchen, it seems. Are you expected to use that?

I think your kitchen and bath plumbing have potential to freeze up when you get some real cold for days on end. Well, the bath anyway. The kitchen looks to be against the interior, probably well -heated, larger part of the building. Your landlord would surely want to know that his/her place is at risk that way. I think it would be to the landlord's advantage to supply a heating system that the tenant can afford to use.

If it gets really bad and you can't get the landlord to act quickly and have no where else to go, at least move your bedding and essentials into the kitchen to hang out in the smaller room to heat. Or move into the store, if your landlord is the operator of that, ha-ha-ha@

The fireplace in the kitchen is an electric unit. Mostly just crackles and looks nice, but will put out a small amount of heat. I don't use it, as it hardly puts out any heat and runs on 220v so it's not cheap to keep on.