Tenant Claims Bad Bathroom Odor, Should I Just Let Him Go?

[Mark S.]

I have a tenant who claims that there is a bad sewage smell coming from the master bathroom - making it unbearable to live in the condo.

He just moved in there on May 1.

The entire condo was remodeled. I was there very often to oversee the project and smelled nothing. Prior tenant had no complaints.

Two different plumbers have gone there to investigate and neither smelled anything. They felt the tenant was angling for something, but unsure of what that was.

I'm now sending a third plumber, per tenant's request.

Tenant is also asking to be let out of his lease so he could move at the end of the next month - due to the smell.

If the third plumber also smells nothing, should I let the tenant out of the lease? Keep the deposit? Hold him to the signed lease?