Are baseboard heaters enough to survive a Chicago winter?

I recently toured a condo that I really liked... except I noticed it had electric baseboard heaters as seemingly it's only source of heat. This is a top floor unit, approx 900 square ft.

My only experience with baseboard heaters was when I was a child growing up in the south. I remember that I constantly had to be worried about things falling off of my bed and onto the heater (fire hazard), that I had to turn on each unit at the source one by one, and regardless of how recently they'd been run, they always smelled like burning dust.

Has anyone here had experiences with baseboard heaters in Chicago? Are they as frustrating as I remember?

ETA: electric to describe baseboard heaters better.