Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia
Heat not working
Hello, I'm currently renting a townhouse & the heating unit is not working. My family & I have been incovenienced by the same. For each day that we had to stay with friends I plan to deduct a day's rent, am I within my legal rights?
Thank you.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Heat not working
No, probably not, but you might want to consider
asserting an escrow account for these rents at the clerk's office of the general district court
in the locality where the property is located.
You could then continue to deposit your rents in this escrow account until the problem is remedied
and until either the landlord and you can come to an agreement as to how the escrow rents should be disposed of or if no agreement can be reached then a decision by the court as to the disposition of these funds.
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