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Old 02-14-2008, 10:38 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed View Post
Legal or not, what's the landlord going to do? They'd lose whatever case they bring to court/whatever board it is that they go to.

It's also illegal to not provide hot water.
The first thing a judge is going to tell you is that the obligation to pay rent is sacrosanct. You never get to stop paying rent because the landlord is being a ######. The landlord may get chastised for being a slumlord or failing to live up to its obligation under the lease, but a tenant is (very rarely) justified in not paying rent.

Par example: http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abpc/doc...998abpc85.html

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