Deducting plumbing costs from rent

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What rights do I have to get this fixed myself?

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Move..I imagine this is enough to break the lease.

Have you cleaned all of your aerators? I had essentially no hot water due to the gunk that was loosened by the frozen expabsion.

Did you drip your water during the freeze? I would always tell he tenants they could deduct the water bill prorated from the rent on hard freeze months if they ran the sink at a trickle and the garage faucets. I would be pissed if they didn't.

While the landlord is responsible for the house, the occupant needs to be vigilant during a freeze.

If you have nothing at all, then you have to have a serious break.

First, go to your water meter and see if the flow indicator is spinning. Then look under your house for a lot of water. I just can't imagine a break so bad, that you have 0 pressure and it can't be found by maintenance.

Apartment or house?

Maybe the shut off valve is on accidentally?
If the meter isn't turning, you don't have a broken pipe, at least on your side. At that point you would need the local government to repair their supply to you.


people saying aerators, it's possible, but the ONLY true water test is to try the faucet on the main line coming in from the ground. Ain't no way in hell it's getting clogged by gunk. Most of the time with a break, you have bad pressure. No pressure at any tap what so ever, would mean a break so bad, that you are pouring 20 gallons or so a minutes out of a pipe.

That water would make your yard a swamp in short time.

If you have no signs of water and no water at your first spigot and no movement of the flow indicator, then you need to rub some Vaseline on your anus and call the S&WB.

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Thanks for posting the details of your lease so we can further assist you

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Warranty of habitability has nothing to do with the lease, counselor.

You probably have something I your lease prohibiting this

so this is a large multi-unit complex?

sorry, I assumed house or duplex.

Hey, is your landlord an old lady in New Jersey, if so RUN!!!!
She is the worst slumlord in the city. Drive down St Charles, every single crappy looking multi-unit building is hers. She has these moron maintenance men. One ran 220v to a dryer using an extension cord. When on the cord had a temperature of well over 100*.


I saw so many things, I just stopped doing the jobs for them. Two news channels had contacted me trying to get info on slum lords in the area. (I blabbed to a producer friend at a local news org)

Disregard everything I said earlier if it's a mutli-unit. Nothing YOU can do.

If your landlord is in New Jersey, and your property manager is an hispanic looking lady on Napoleon across from Pascal Manale's move out now.

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My landlord is telling me his personal maintenance team has done all they can do

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Unfortunately the lease forbids withholding rent for any reason and I really don't want to break the lease. Damn

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I would assume this wouldn't hold up were things actually going to go to court. You can't agree to nonlegal activities and you have a legal right to withhold rent.

I'm not a lawyer so I can't tell you that for sure, but I have some experience with contracts and know that you can't take legal rights even through contracting.

Not for the large managment companies like Tonti. Those frickers. A buddy of mine had a ceiling cave in and multiple ac issues. He decided to not pay the rent. Well his contract he signed allowed him to be fined for non payment.
He had to pay the fee, the late fee, never got his apartment fixed and got evicted. I would wish a Tonti unit on my worst enemy.

Though there are so many slumlords out there in the city. Generally if I feel a customer is a slum lord, I fire them as a customer. I don't want their money.