My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Washington
I live in an apartment community and I have been informed after an inspection that my floors are in disrepair and I have to move out in 3 months when my lease is up. I have lived there for three years. (the problem is something to do with the concrete/gypcrete being cracked under the carpet) Here's my question, do I have to live in an apartment with damaged floors until my lease is up? Do I have any rights to demand they move me into a new unit that is not damaged or even pay me for the three months left on my lease if I move out right now?
The community is owned by a corporation that owns hundreds of these kinds of apartment communities.
I talked with the apartment manager today and she says that there is no a safety issue with the floor. Instead, the issue is the tenant below can hear me walking and the floor creaks when I do, now whether hearing my footsteps and the creaking is due to cracked concrete/gypcrete under the floor I do not know. I hear the person above me walking and creaking all of the time and they remodeled that apartment recently. The building was built in 1987.
The maintenance guys who inspected the floor walked on it while one of them was in the unit below and listened, they did not actually pull up the carpet to look at the concrete/gypcrete to see if it was damaged.
If there is no actual safety issue, but the floor is damaged, am I basically out of luck and have to stay until my lease is up or have them let me out early? It seems like they should be legally obligated to move me into a "non-damaged" unit instead of making me live in one that has damaged floors and is bothering the tenant below, even if there isn't a real safety concern. Am I wrong about this?
Also, I just found a section in the tenant rights for my state, this is listed under "landlord duties": Maintain the structural components including, but not limited to, the roofs, floors, walls, chimneys, fireplaces, foundations, and all other structural components, in reasonably good repair so as to be usable;
I live in an apartment community and I have been informed after an inspection that my floors are in disrepair and I have to move out in 3 months when my lease is up. I have lived there for three years. (the problem is something to do with the concrete/gypcrete being cracked under the carpet) Here's my question, do I have to live in an apartment with damaged floors until my lease is up? Do I have any rights to demand they move me into a new unit that is not damaged or even pay me for the three months left on my lease if I move out right now?
The community is owned by a corporation that owns hundreds of these kinds of apartment communities.
I talked with the apartment manager today and she says that there is no a safety issue with the floor. Instead, the issue is the tenant below can hear me walking and the floor creaks when I do, now whether hearing my footsteps and the creaking is due to cracked concrete/gypcrete under the floor I do not know. I hear the person above me walking and creaking all of the time and they remodeled that apartment recently. The building was built in 1987.
The maintenance guys who inspected the floor walked on it while one of them was in the unit below and listened, they did not actually pull up the carpet to look at the concrete/gypcrete to see if it was damaged.
If there is no actual safety issue, but the floor is damaged, am I basically out of luck and have to stay until my lease is up or have them let me out early? It seems like they should be legally obligated to move me into a "non-damaged" unit instead of making me live in one that has damaged floors and is bothering the tenant below, even if there isn't a real safety concern. Am I wrong about this?
Also, I just found a section in the tenant rights for my state, this is listed under "landlord duties": Maintain the structural components including, but not limited to, the roofs, floors, walls, chimneys, fireplaces, foundations, and all other structural components, in reasonably good repair so as to be usable;
Repair and Maintenance: Landlord Won't Repair My Floors Until My Lease is Up
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