Walk It Through: The Leaky Ceiling
Repair and deduct after fourteen days, a dispute that needs a city certificate, and one month's notice.
Water drips through a renter's bedroom ceiling every time it rains, and the landlord does not come to fix it.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One apartment and one leak. Mobile home lots, occupancy limits, and conditions the tenant caused 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.
- Month to month tenancyA tenancy either side may end by written notice stating it ends on a rent paying date at least one month after the notice is received.
- Repair and deductA code violation harming habitability, fixed by the tenant and deducted from rent when the landlord does not fix it within fourteen days of written notice, if it costs less than three hundred dollars or half the rent.