Can tenant take central AC unit paid for by tenant

[Matthew Guidry]

Long story short, my mother in law has been living in her deceased parent's house in Florida. The house was passed down to her sister but she was allowed to live there. Her sister passed away last year and the house is now owned by her brother-in-law. The air conditioning went out several months ago so she spent nearly $6K on a new central unit. Now the brother-in-law is evicting her and refusing to reimburse her for the new air conditioning. Does anybody familiar with Florida rental laws know if she can legally take the air conditioning unit with her?

[Bill B.]

Her brother in law already owned it when she installed the AC unit. If she was a rent paying tenant she should have told her Florida landlord brother in law the AC was broken. If it’s like Las Vegas they would have had a certain number of days to fix it and pay for the repair. Btu done is done. You can’t take a replaced window or repaired roof either. 

Hopefully she paid $6,000 less than market rent over all the months she lived there since her parents passed away and she’s still ahead/breaking even.