Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Ohio

We currently live in ohio in an apartment. The management does not do anything about our complaints about noise level or littering. While reading our lease statement, the only part of the lease that is actually enforced by the management/company is when they are going to get money. This might seem fine but we liked the rules they set forth but this place is really making our blood boil. My question is. If we break our lease, " how much are they expecting from us, and what can we do to keep them from getting it since it is their fault for not enforcing their own rules they promised in the lease?" The lease states we owe 1200 dollars for the incentive but says nothing else about breaking the lease.


Asked on 7/17/12, 7:52 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Eric Willison Eric Eastman Willison

In Ohio when a tenant is having a noise problem with other tenants, the tenant does have remedies, which you can find here: http://www.ohiolandlordtenant.com/faq17.html

As far as your landlord's failing to fix things around the apartment, you can find your remedies here: http://www.ohiolandlordtenant.com/faq1.html

If you have to terminate the lease and move out pursuant to R.C. 5321.07 (explained in one of the links above) then it is not you breaching the lease agreement, but the apartment complex, and as such, you won't owe them anything so long as a court (if this goes to trial) finds in your favor on the issue of the landlord's breach of the lease agreement.

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Answered on 7/18/12, 1:46 pm


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