You can request it, but you become a problem tenant when you don't pay. Your landlord will probably start looking for a more reliable tenant, and you should start looking for a new home before your lease expires. The only exception is if the home was unusable.
If the heat was broken so you had to stay somewhere else, then your landlord might be more understanding. But your landlord might still decide to find someone else to live there.
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