Whose Responsibility is It When Renting?

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When I say my sister I am not talking about the same one all the time, my father married 3 times. Having said that. One of my sisters rents so where she was living the landlord went up on the rent and she moved over the weekend and I went and helped her. This is an old house that she moved in. The temperature here has gotten real cold and windy at night. Saturday the day she moved was a nice day the temp was in the 70's. By Sunday night the temp dropped to the 20's at night and windy. That is when she realized that the house was cold and wind was coming through the windows. She called me and was telling me about it she said her husband had placed some plastic over the windows which didn't help much. I told her to call the landlord because that was his place to have those windows fixed, well she did, and he said that he did not do that. As in that is not his responsibility , and her husband told her to ask him about caulking the windows, the landlord said he did not want caulk on the windows, he told her to put some plastic over the window. Now what is she suppose to do? Isn't that his responsibility to get those windows fixed?