I have a two bedroom, one bath townhouse we are renting from an apartment complex. It's a pretty old unit, from the 1940s or so and we moved here a few days ago.
The upstairs has no ventilation from the main furnace and at night it would get really cold upstairs except they installed an electric heater in the bathroom. It's installed in the wall about a foot off the floor and isn't easily removable (screws and a metal plate hold it in place, and whatever else is behind that.)
The problem with this that I see are:
1. it's in the bathroom and it's an electric heater where it can get wet.
2. I have two kids, 1 and 3 years old. They can easily just shove crap in the slots of it when we're not looking, or whatever else. Turning it on and off is in their reach and they already do that.
3. this is the main source of heat for the upstairs and needs to be on at night here.
is this considered a major problem legally? What steps should I take?