Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Louisiana

Probably not. The normal rule on failure to make necessary repairs is that, once you have given written notice and the landlord has failed to repair timely, you are allowed to hire a professional to repair and deduct the amount you paid from your rent. The landlord must allow this deduction, whether he wants to or not. Keep receipts, obviously. You can't normally just walk out on a lease for failure to repair. However, if the cost of the repairs is simply too much (say,the home needs an entire new roof or an entire new central a/c unit, you could have grounds to walk out then, as the cost of the repairs would be more than the value of the whole lease). BTW, verbal notifications don't mean much. Use WRITTEN notifications in these instances. And, written means on a piece of paper, preferably. Not a text message.