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Your obligations include paying rent on time, complying with lease provisions, and providing appropriate notice when terminating a lease. Your rights include living in a safe and habitable environment, and being free from discrimination or retaliation.
Your Tennessee tenant may also be legally justified to withhold rent or even break the lease if their rental unit is no longer habitable. Housing codes must be abided by for the lease to remain applicable, as is the law. Every state has specific health and safety codes that the landlord must meet per each rental unit.
What does the landlord tenant act say?Comply with requirements of applicable building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety;Make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition;More items...
(b) The landlord may enter the premises without consent of the tenant in case of emergency. "Emergency" means a sudden, generally unexpected occurrence or set of circumstances demanding immediate action.
Landlords are prohibited from harassing or retaliating against tenants who exercise their legal rights. In Tennessee, the landlord must not terminate, refuse to renew a lease, or fine a tenant for complaining to the landlord regarding the deposit, complaining to a government agency, or exercising a legal right.
Your obligations include paying rent on time, complying with lease provisions, and providing appropriate notice when terminating a lease. Your rights include living in a safe and habitable environment, and being free from discrimination or retaliation.
Landlords cannot enter tenanted properties without giving proper notice. Landlords cannot arbitrarily end someone's tenancy before the lease expires. Arbitrary, mid-lease rent increases are not permitted unless specified in certain circumstances in the lease or by the municipality.
Landlords cannot unreasonably prohibit guests from entering the rental property or charge a fee for having guests over.
If you repeat an act that violates the lease or rental agreement within a six-month period, your landlord may give you an unconditional quit notice, giving you 14 days to move out. (Tenn. Code. Ann.