Tenant Rights Inquiry

[Neneth Gerona]

I've been a tenant in an apartment for about a year now. Then, just few days ago my a/c just broke down. As far as I know, when you rent an apartment, your landlord has the obligation to provide you with a living space that is fit for human habitation. This means that if something breaks down, your landlord might have to fix it to keep your apartment habitable. However, he refuses to repair it at his own cost. I just wanna ask if there are limits to this obligation. 

[Colleen F.]

Depends on how habitable is defined in your region. Also depends on what is in your lease. Is this a central air unit? For our region heat would be required but not air. If air was there on move in restoring it to working would not fall under habitability but under language related to keeping the unit in the same condition as it was when rented. If we excluded the ac on the lease that would be fine.