Walk It Through: The Cold Apartment
A furnace that will not hold heat in January, a leaky faucet, an inspector's notice, and a sudden notice to leave.
In January the furnace cannot keep the apartment warm. The tenant tells the landlord, who says it will be looked at.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A heating failure and a minor plumbing defect in a year round apartment. Damage the tenant caused, a building with many units sharing a boiler, and the amount of rent a court may award back 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.