Can I break a rental lease due to cockroach infestation, mold, and property repairs not being done?

We have been living in a half double for a year in a half, and our landlord is not doing her duty. My reasons for wanting to break a lease is because of various reasons such as:


1. there is a very bad cockroach investation that has not been treated profesionally.


2. there is also black mold in the basement that has never been treated, and we were not told it was a problem. It may be the cause of many health problems within my two children, my husband and I.


3. there are many repairs that are in need to be repaired. Outside there are many problems such as large rusty nails sticking out of a wooden deck, a metal railing that is not attached, which could cause a possible injury, and a stone pillar with missing bricks making it possible for it to collapse onto a child, and the heavy stone ontop is very easily moveable.


4. Inside the house are screen doors unfixed with glass able to fall out at any time.





We have many pictures to prove our case.Can I break a rental lease due to cockroach infestation, mold, and property repairs not being done?
hell yea, and if they take you to court counter sue for damages to your phych, make sure you keep a record of everything and take pictures and stuff lots and lots of pictures of everything.....take some now and then 1 week and then 2 weeks after you tell you landlord and keeep a record please please for the sake of youCan I break a rental lease due to cockroach infestation, mold, and property repairs not being done?
yes you can and talk it oveer with the landlord informing her what you want done if not you'll break the lease..
Sounds like the glass door, rusty nails and repairs and the mold needed to be cleaned up long before you got into the house, since you've been there a year and a half, seems that you already renewed your lease and agreed to the mess. It's clear the woman is not going to clean up her place, maybe she can't, or if she can maybe she would raise your rent till you couldn't afford to live there anymore. It takes time to move out so plan ahead. You can always fog the place for cockroaches (most of us here in the apartments do that ourselves, we buy the raid foggers then leave the house for several hours while the Raid does it's thing. But when you return you need to air it out real good, run the vacuum, wash everything that had been exposed like table tops, kids stuff. And when you move you'll have to fog again because you might just have brought the roaches with you to the new place.





How do you get out of the lease, well as mentioned, seems you already renewed for the second year. Since you are asking the woman to spend money, if you went to talk with her she might tell you sure you can leave but pay the rest of the year, and it's difficult to win that kind of case in court, and it takes several months in most cases and a few trips to court (for both you and your husband). So check around for another apartment or house, put a payment down to hold it, and then see if you can get out of this lease thru negotiation.
This is definately grounds to break a lease, however make sure you give a notice in writing listing all the reasons of your early termination. Be prepared to go to court to get your security deposite back..good luck
It depends if this was in the contract because some landlords put it on the attendants living in the house or apartment as their responsibility's to fix it up but you could take the copy of the contract that was giving to you and have a lawyer look over it to make sure you will not be held accountable for any money loses.
Call the health department and have an inspector out. That will put the lady on notice--either clean up her place or have it shut down. The health dept. will not allow a bad hazard to exist.
Absolutely! Mold is reason enough by itself. It's very harmful to your health.
Contact an attorney that specializes in landlord-tenant law. They can give you the best advice on how to remedy this situation so that it works out best for you in the long run -- financially and otherwise. Or try contacting a local law school. They may have some ambitious students that can help you handle this quickly and inexpensively.