With this winter’s crazy weather, just last month, a leak appeared from our patio (which is also the roof of an extension) into our tenant’s apartment. I have been on the scene each time it has leaked (on two separate occasions over the last month), and I have been trying different things to repair, or at least fix the leak until the weather gets warmer. My tenant keeps mentioning a rent reduction or credit for the rooms that have the leak. What should I do?


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  1. I’m a renter, had water coming in through the window frames of my apartment after every intense rainfall following the tornado in the fall, wish I had asked for a rent reduction as the LL’s were shockingly unresponsive to what I thought should have been a serious worry for them.

  2. As usual, Vinca is spot-on. You want your tenant to take leaks seriously – you need to treat them seriously. Money = seriousness to some people. As a landlord, I would find some way to show goodwill to good tenants. $100 is a very small price to pay for a good relationship with your tenant – look through this forum for examples of the kind of crazy that could be visited upon you.

  3. If its taken more than 2 weeks or so to fix the leak and it affects the way they use the apartment then they definitely deserve a rent reduction.
    They would get one in housing court, so take care of it and don’t let it come to that.

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