Walk It Through: No Heat In January
A broken furnace, three days' notice, the twelve day trial, and the notice to move.
The furnace dies in January, and the landlord does not answer texts for a week.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One winter in one rental. Rent withholding, retaliation, a fixed term lease and the seventy-two hours after judgment are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Treble damagesDamages entered at three times the amount assessed, which the landlord and tenant chapter allows in an action under the tenant's section.
- Unlawful detainerStaying in a rental after the right to stay has ended, as after a written three days' notice to pay rent or give up possession has run.
- Tenancy at willA tenancy with no fixed end, which either side may end by written notice of not less than one month.