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ABA Family Legal Guide

Renting Residential Property

Maintaining Rental Property

Reduced Rent

  1. What is reduced rent?
  2. How does a tenant go about paying reduced rent?
  3. May the tenant withhold all the rent?
  4. Must the tenant put the withheld rent money in an escrow account?
  5. What is a rent strike?
  6. How do the courts calculate rent reductions?
  7. If the tenant paid full rent but the premises were defective, can the tenant seek a rent reduction for past months?
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