Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Minnesota

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My name is David. My girlfriend and I have a 21 month old daughter and are living in a trailer with a year lease agreement. She and I are both on the lease, and we are wishing to get out of it and in the mean time place rent in escrow, and file for rent abatement due to the state of repair being unreasonable to live in. we moved in this October, and have made all rent payments on time. when we moved in there was not batteries in our smoke alarms and no carbon monoxide detector present. The gas range stove was not functioning, and we found out this was due to the gas not being turned on. when the gas was turned on there was a strong gas smell that was report by myself to the owner of the trailer community, and the the on site management. we were told it would be a week before maintenance could take a look at it and thus, I contacted the gas company to escalate the issue. The emergency inspector deemed it dangerous and shut off the gas main which forced a next day repair from the onsite manager. non licensed in gas repair. after the "repair" was finished I had the gas company out again to ensure that the problem was rectified. however the gas range now stood 10" away from the wall. It was only this last week of before Christmas that this hack job was finally addressed. and only done so in pushing and forcing the gas pipe under pressure against the wall. I told the onsite manager this was not a fix at all and that it is dangerous to force gas pipes and that it would have to be fixed right! this is still not resolved to date. When Raquel and I moved in there were eight missing storm windows in the trailer. we brought this to the landlord's, property manager, and onsite managers attention in October. We were told theat the on site manager hadn't even placed an order for the replacements of the missing storm windows until November by the landlord. We still to date do not have the storm windows and have to maintain the thermostat setting at 80 degrees in order to have an internal home temperature of 72 degrees. We have lost power in the kitchen, for the dryer, and several other outlets throughout the house three days ago, and are told we must make the first $75 dollars towards the repair, and yesterday Christmas Eve lost all water to our home and have yet to have a solution from the onsite manager for this. My question is do we have a case and how should we proceed. we no longer wish to live in such conditions and and especially with our daughter?

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