Repairs & Maintenance
Who pays for what, the habitability duty no lease can waive, response times that keep a repair from becoming a case, and when replacing beats repairing.
- Repairs & Maintenance Landlord Reasonable Time to Repair: 24 Hours or 30 Days Six statutes put real hours on the words reasonable time — 24, 48, 72, three days, fourteen. And most of them ask you to start the repair, not finish it.
- Repairs & Maintenance Repair and Deduct: When a Short Rent Check Is Legal The rent came in $460 short, stapled to a plumber's invoice. Whether that is arrears or a lawful deduction turns on five questions your state statute answers.
- Repairs & Maintenance Landlord Tenant Repair Responsibilities Chart A clogged drain, a dead furnace, a cracked window. Five state statutes split those bills differently, and most of each split is ground no lease can move.