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Originally Posted by J-bo09
Quick question on the above Photon. The Landlord is making zero effort. None. It is the Condo Mangament company that is doing all the work. It is one thing if the landlord is contacting us, but in the case of a building, it is not like he is down there fixing the unit.
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Well the condo management company is the one that's responsible for the building, they're a proxy for the landlord, letting the condo management company do their job IS making every possible effort. The owner of one unit cannot hire (or be reasonably expected to hire) their own contractors to address shared building issues, and how each individual unit impacted gets handled is a function of the condo corp and such, I don't know if each owner hires their own repair guys or if the condo corp does that en masse as well. If it's up to each owner to address the interior of each unit and your landlord hasn't made any arrangements if they are allowed to then you would have a point.
There's no requirement for a landlord to be fixing a unit themselves, that's not reasonable.
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Originally Posted by J-bo09
For me the words that keep coming up are "Reasonable" and "time-frame". To me it is unreasonable to pay, let's say 3 months, of a 12 month lease, before it can be fixed.
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Reasonable is in terms of what the repair should take, not in terms of what your lease length arbitrarily happens to be. Depending on the damage, 3 months might be completely reasonable or completely unreasonable.
If the furnace is broken and the landlord takes a week to even call someone, that's not reasonable. If it happens at 2:00am and a repair guy can't get there till 6:00am because the landlord can't find anyone despite making calls all morning that's reasonable.