Repair issue and terminating the lease - Landlord Forum thread 350087

Repair issue and terminating the lease by Peter (NJ) on January 11, 2017 @09:45

I have a major repair in the bathroom and landlord refuse to repair it for last 3 months. He claimed settlement via his home insurance. I have another bathroom to spare but afraid it might break too. His intent is to let me leave so that he can renovate the bathrooms and get increased rent. Anyway I have given 1 month notice to let me vacate per lease agreement for early termination. He agreed to it. Is there a process to get rent abatement?Landlord has my 1.5 month deposit. Can I withhold rent for last month rent during the notice period?

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Re: Repair issue and terminating the lease by Anonymous on January 11, 2017 @12:40	[ Reply ]

No do not withhold rent. The LL would be a fool not to return your deposit less any damage you may have caused that is not normal usage type items. Ask for a walk through 1 week before end of the month to see if anything needs repair. If the L withholds any deposit not listing issues you caused you can go to court and bring up the default bathroom and possibly be given money for that plus the security deposit as well.

Re: Repair issue and terminating the lease by Garry on January 12, 2017 @07:30	[ Reply ]

Everyone needs to be careful about the postings by " Kimberly from Virginia " This is the first time I have seen her name and state come up in this forum. She has posted answers to 6 questions (posted in the past week) last night in a 1 hour time span. 5 of the 6 posts were all the same exact wording, no matter what the original question was. Her answers were all about repairing a persons credit. This could be spam, a troll, or who knows what. These/her postings seemed "odd", to me, so that's why I"m posting this message to the forum.

I thought her advice was odd as well