Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California
I rented a townhouse as is which included appliances I do not have a written lease only an oral agreement the landlord's daughter removed the refrigerator washer and dryer microwave and toaster oven can I consider this house now uninhabitable
1 Answer from Attorneys
No. Uninhabitable is only the absence of one or more strictly legally defined conditions that pertain to the most basic conditions of housing, such as water, power, heating, being closed against the elements, etc. You may have a claim for rent reduction and/or reimbursement from the date the appliances were removed, for the difference between your agreed rent and the market rental value of the premises if rented out with the tenant having to provide those items, but you do not have an uninhabitability claim.
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