Resident Asks for Reduced Rent

[Julie Marquez]

Due to a bad window replacement and siding job back in 2016, water was been coming in around the south facing windows every bad rain storm (like once a week in the PNW). We tried caulking up the area but that doesn't seem to help. We plan on taking off the siding and redoing everything in the summer to really fix the problem. Ugh, I hate water issues.

Anyway, resident understands that the fix isn't immediate and asked if he could get a reduced rent for his subpar living conditions (collecting the water at the two windows, cleaning it up, keeping belonging away from the windows, etc.). I told resident that he could move without any penalties, but he said he is not in the position to move right now. He does not have renter's insurance, would that help in this kind of situation?

I understand that is apartment is not to standard and will be that way every time it rains hard until we fix the issue. What do I do to compensate for that? BTW, he's not my favorite tenant, has a history of paying late, bounced checks, and lying to us to pay rent later. Some days I'd rather just kick him out (aka give hime 20 day notice him to vacate on his M2M agreement). I am not going to change his rent amount, I could just give him $40 and say deal with it. What would you do?