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My building has serious maintenance issues. It's a pretty nice building in a downtown area, and I pay quite a bit of rent per month for this area-so the service I'm getting is surprisingly bad. I've had countless problems with maintenance since I moved here in August...
-My heat has broken on 3 separate occasions (middle of winter)
-I've had 3 different leaks in my roof, one of which took them over a month to fix and still isn't completely fixed. The most recent leak was suppose to be fixed today, their guy they outsource too didn't call or show up, go figure.
-Front Gate broke, essentially trapping me outside since I my garage door opener was in my car which is under the building in the parking deck, luckily I'm able to climb the gate. If I had been a woman or an out of shape guy, I wouldn't have been able to get in my building.
-Garage door broke, trapping about 50% of the residents inside for 2 days. Luckily I was still job hunting at this point and didn't have to miss work because of this.
Legally speaking, since they're not fixing the leaks in the roof, they're violating their part of the lease and I'm not entitled to pay rent-as I understand. From what I hear, I can pay my rent to the courthouse and they'll hold it until the dispute is resolved (my leaks fixed). My uncle does contract law and I was going to consult him, but there's also the issue of not wanting to piss off these people because I may be dealing with them for several years. What would you guys do?
-My heat has broken on 3 separate occasions (middle of winter)
-I've had 3 different leaks in my roof, one of which took them over a month to fix and still isn't completely fixed. The most recent leak was suppose to be fixed today, their guy they outsource too didn't call or show up, go figure.
-Front Gate broke, essentially trapping me outside since I my garage door opener was in my car which is under the building in the parking deck, luckily I'm able to climb the gate. If I had been a woman or an out of shape guy, I wouldn't have been able to get in my building.
-Garage door broke, trapping about 50% of the residents inside for 2 days. Luckily I was still job hunting at this point and didn't have to miss work because of this.
Legally speaking, since they're not fixing the leaks in the roof, they're violating their part of the lease and I'm not entitled to pay rent-as I understand. From what I hear, I can pay my rent to the courthouse and they'll hold it until the dispute is resolved (my leaks fixed). My uncle does contract law and I was going to consult him, but there's also the issue of not wanting to piss off these people because I may be dealing with them for several years. What would you guys do?