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Texas Request for Maintenance
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The right to "quiet enjoyment" of your home. This means your landlord cannot evict you without proper cause (most commonly nonpayment of rent) or otherwise disturb your right to live in peace and quiet. Your landlord must also protect you from any wrongful actions taken by other tenants.
In Texas there is no statute for the notice period required by landlord for non-emergency access to a unit. However, the majority of landlords use courtesy and common sense when providing notice to their tenants if they need to enter the unit to repair or maintain the unit.
Texas courts have held that a landlord may not enter your home unless you allow the entry or the lease gives the landlord specific reasons to enter. Some lease agreements give a list of reasons when the landlord can enter and other leases do not mention landlord's entry at all.
In all states, a landlord can enter the property in an emergency without notice or permission. For example, if a burst pipe in your apartment is leaking into the unit downstairs, your landlord may enter or send someone from the maintenance crew to enter your home if you're not there.
The law requires your landlord to repair conditions that affect the physical health and safety of ordinary tenants. These could include things like roaches, rats, sewage leaks, roof leaks, faulty electrical wiring, and normal wear and tear to the unit (such as ripped carpeting or broken flooring).
Although Texas law allows you to repair certain conditions and deduct the cost from your monthly rent payment, it does not allow you to simply withhold or reduce rent. So, noyou can't withhold rent for repairs in Texas.
Your landlord in Texas has a maximum of seven days to make a serious repairless if it has to do with heat, running water, sewage, broken pipes, or flooding. If you live in Texas, state law gives your landlord a maximum of seven days to address a repair after you've notified them of the issue using certified mail.
Tenants in Texas are not allowed to withhold rent because their landlord hasn't made necessary repairs. If they do so illegally, the penalty is one month's rent plus an extra $500. In some states, tenants are allowed to withhold some or all of their rent until their landlord makes major repairs.
It says landlords should fix major problems within two weeks if they pose a threat to a tenant's health and security, such as a broken boiler in the depths of winter.
