Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Demand that they provide where in the lease you have with them, or statute or case law that you have any obligation to prevent damage to the garage by others. You can not handle the garage in such a way as to encourage damage, such as leaving it part way open, but you hae n contro;l of the outside of the garage which is where the damage occurred. Since you have no duty to protect the outside, you have no legal liability. In the rental agreement however, they agree to rent you a garage; the average person would read that as requiring that it was a functioning garage, i.e. the doors work, so they must repair the doors at theri own cost.