Tenant wants to break lease

[John Morgan]

A friend of mine wants to break her lease due to her landlord slow at fixing things. She wants to move into my vacant unit and just get out of her lease. It took a few months for him to fix something they requested as soon as she moved in. Now she has a couple other small issues and the slum lord isn’t really responsive. Can she legally in Texas break the lease and get out of it if he’s slow to fix things? I’m not sure the exact issues or how bad they are. Something about the AC not working very good. Animals living in the attic and rust or dirt coming out of a sink. She just wants out but doesn’t want to get sued. She has text messages to him with the date when she requested it Oct 4th. He finally fixed it Dec 22. She’s hoping that’s good enough to legally not get sued for breaking the lease.