In Texas, if there is no heat in your apartment, do you still have to pay rent?
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THE TEXAS LANDLORD/TENANT LAW IS IN THE
WEBSITE I REFER TO BELOW.
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check out your lease--if it says that you DO have heat, then you'd be able to take legal recourse against your landlord. I seriously doubt tho that it specifies such a thing. In college I was in an apartment without A/C and it's not like I could just quit paying rent or anything like that. "buyer beware" I think is the general sentiment. you should've checked out that kind of stuff before signing the lease.
my heat isn't included in my rent; that's part of my electricity bill.
check out your lease--if it says that you DO have heat, then you'd be able to take legal recourse against your landlord. I seriously doubt tho that it specifies such a thing. In college I was in an apartment without A/C and it's not like I could just quit paying rent or anything like that. "buyer beware" I think is the general sentiment. you should've checked out that kind of stuff before signing the lease.
my heat isn't included in my rent; that's part of my electricity bill.
Please post additional details- is the heat broken or absent entirely? How long have you lived there. How I would answer depends on that.
The safest way is to put your rent into an escrow account, when the repair is made then the landlord gets their rent. If the problem is already fixed, then you have no choice but to pay
Not paying the rent is not a option. You might want to work out with the landlord. About having heat or not depends on the lease and it also circumstancial. If all other apartmetns have heat then you should have it.