Help with landlord

By Samar

We moved into this house a couple months ago and had problems from the start. The landlord refuses to make repairs in the home, he wants us to pay to for the repairs in the home, and none of it is anything we caused. There are many holes through the house and he wants us to pay to cover them, the screens have holes in them and it’s not just one and almost all of them which is 6-7 screens and he wants us to use tape and refuses to replace them. We also didn’t know the house didn’t have A.C. until after we moved in. He wanted us to pay to put up the blinds when the lease said the blinds were included. He eventually dropped off the blinds for only 3 windows and wants us to pay someone to put them up. When we moved in we found mice poop under the sink and he wouldn’t pay for the exterminator. We have pictures to prove all this stuff.  His contractor left their supplies in the house when we moved in, left glass outside and garbage; we had to clean it up because they wouldn’t. He won’t cut the grass, or anything. When we signed the lease, he took the lease with him for a week and when he brought it back, we found couple of items added that we didn’t sign or initial. They were written in, and everything else we agreed and were written in had our initials excepts for the items we found after he brought the lease back. We also got a home inspector because he kept getting bad smell from the family room; the inspector found 4 major violation codes that has to do with electricity and more throughout the house like hole in the roof, cracks in the window, and mold on the window. Also found car tires in the attic, bicycles and was very dirty. Were paying a 1050 a month and shouldn’t have to live in this kind of condition.  The inspector even wrote in the report that the house is unsafe and not habitable. We need help breaking the lease, we also would like full security deposit back and the cost of the appliances we had to get to move in this house. We have the inspector report, the pictures and you guys can call the inspector. We also would like at least 2 months of rent back because now we have to look for a new place and put a security deposit down for a new place. He knew the house was unsafe and told us that a building inspector walked it before we moved in, but it was a lie because he violated a few codes and we later found out that he never got an inspector.

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