The legal path (do it in order)
Texas Property Code Chapter 92, Subchapter B is your tool:
- ✓Sec. 92.056: send a written repair request (keep a dated copy). The landlord must make a diligent effort to repair conditions that affect health/safety.
- ✓If they fail within a reasonable time after a second notice, you may have remedies including terminating the lease, getting a court order, or repair-and-deduct.
- ✓Sec. 92.0561: repair-and-deduct lets you (within limits) pay for the repair and deduct from rent - follow the dollar caps and notice rules exactly.
- ✓Never just stop paying rent - that gives them grounds to evict. Use the statute instead.
Check the pattern before you rent
Chronic non-response shows up in recent reviews and, for serious habitability issues, in city code-violation records (Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Arlington publish these). A complex with open code violations is telling you how it handles repairs.
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