Ok, to keep this short and sweet...my wife, 3 children, and I are renting a fairly nice lower income apartment in Nashville. Most of the Neighbors we do not have any problems with(minus a long standing parking spot issue and this issue I'm going to ask about), the complex is well lit, and our rent is the cheapest in a fairly large area...no, it's not Section 8 housing or HUD.
We like it very much except one problem we've been having since early fall...actually, two problems.
1) earlier this year, the apartment above us developed a leak from the drain from the furnace above our laundry room. It's been leaking a while, so they cut two holes in our ceiling(above washing machine and dryer in laundry room, one in kitchen utility closet) and pointed a fan to blow air to dry it out. Fast forwards a couple of months, only one hole was patched and the other in the kitchen is wide open. The maintenance person is taking her old sweet time in fixing the hole. (To her defense, she also taken on the role of part time management because they can't seem to keep a manager around)
2) Problem number two, since earlier this past fall, we have began to smell cigarette smoke in our apartment. Some in the kitchen area, but a bunch back in the master bath. We made a complaint to the office and this part time manager went to talked to the people above us(they only smoke outside) and the person behind us(guy says he only smokes outside, the woman says she used to smoke inside and outside but been trying to "quit", and the son is too young to smoke). After a couple months of management not doing anything, my wife and I are tired of smelling somebody else's air pollution(If you want to smoke, go ahead and smoke your lungs out...but we do not want to breath in your crap).
We are thinking about packing up and moving, however we still have a lease until Sept or Oct. I want to know what are the landlord's responsibility to fix this problem(problems) and is there any way to get out of our lease due to lack of management taking care of the problems listed above.
I do recall smoking inside the apartment is prohibited, but management seems to bend the rules for certain people.
In a side note, anybody know of houses for rent?
We like it very much except one problem we've been having since early fall...actually, two problems.
1) earlier this year, the apartment above us developed a leak from the drain from the furnace above our laundry room. It's been leaking a while, so they cut two holes in our ceiling(above washing machine and dryer in laundry room, one in kitchen utility closet) and pointed a fan to blow air to dry it out. Fast forwards a couple of months, only one hole was patched and the other in the kitchen is wide open. The maintenance person is taking her old sweet time in fixing the hole. (To her defense, she also taken on the role of part time management because they can't seem to keep a manager around)
2) Problem number two, since earlier this past fall, we have began to smell cigarette smoke in our apartment. Some in the kitchen area, but a bunch back in the master bath. We made a complaint to the office and this part time manager went to talked to the people above us(they only smoke outside) and the person behind us(guy says he only smokes outside, the woman says she used to smoke inside and outside but been trying to "quit", and the son is too young to smoke). After a couple months of management not doing anything, my wife and I are tired of smelling somebody else's air pollution(If you want to smoke, go ahead and smoke your lungs out...but we do not want to breath in your crap).
We are thinking about packing up and moving, however we still have a lease until Sept or Oct. I want to know what are the landlord's responsibility to fix this problem(problems) and is there any way to get out of our lease due to lack of management taking care of the problems listed above.
I do recall smoking inside the apartment is prohibited, but management seems to bend the rules for certain people.
In a side note, anybody know of houses for rent?
