Tenants have the right to have any condition that threatens their health or safety repaired.
By giving the proper notices, a tenant can obtain repair remedies as soon as legally possible. Those remedies, described below, depend on the repair problem. This brochure describes the rights and remedies of tenants who signed or renewed a lease on or after January 1, 1998. If the lease was signed or renewed before this date, a previous repair law governs and ATC should be contacted for the rules regarding such a lease. An example of a repair that is not a threat to health or safety is a dishwasher or garbage disposal that does not work properly and is not dangerous in some other way.