In reviewing your last posting:

"We couldn't shower, do laundry, dishes, nor flush the toilet for 4 months. I turned him into the heath department and then he was calling me a snitch, saying I was crazy, and just treating me bad. He did fix that."

So the repair issue has been addressed.

" Also the one room upstairs has no carpet, or anything. "

This does not make a rental unit uninhabitable.

"The trusses that hold the roof up over the children's rooms are burnt so bad my boyfriend hardly touched them and it broke a piece off in his hand. I am not going to put my kids in those rooms. I told him verbally, he said he would have someone just cover it so it won't be seen."

Your comment implies that, again, your documentation with the landlord regarding repairs has only been verbal. Thus, you have no documentation to present to the court that you have attempted to notify your landlord of the repair issue IN WRITING, having allowed him a reasonable amount of time to address this repair and, when he has failed to do this, you have notified him you are withholding rent but placing this rent in an escrow account to show the court your "good faith" effort that yes, this rent will be released once the repairs have been addressed.

Gail