Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Texas
My lease states that if I provide a written request for repairs, the lessor has an obligation to make those repairs within a reasonable amount of time. According to the attorney general, 7 days is a reasonable amount of time. If the repairs have not been made, a second request may be submitted. If they have not made the repairs after this, we may terminate the lease. My question is, what constitutes a written request? Do we have to go through the lessor's normal maintenance request protocol? Or does a formal complaint we submitted to the landlord count? Does an email to him also count?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Unless the lease specifies otherwise written means anything in writing. You would want some sort of dating mechanism shows that. A certified letter has this, so does an email.
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