My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Pennsylvania
Hello,
I come here for advice on my lease and issues going on here. My GF and I moved into this apt Mar 1st 2013, Upon arriving to move in there was a property evicted notice outside....The other tenant informed us that the heat for the building broke so she called codes and they came and put up the eviction. So we called the landlords, They said they already cleared it up with codes and that we can still move in. We then spent about 2 weeks with only space heaters to heat the apt. Electrician comes installs wall electric heating units. So there was the heat. Another issue was in the bedroom we would wake up hacking and coughing and some trouble breathing. We suspected there to be mold spores in the air or some other air quality issue. Lets cut forward to June 9th when me and my GF broke up. She was still staying here, Then about a week after breaking up. The center ceiling tiles in the bedroom fell down due to a water leak upstairs. The leak gets fixed, a guy comes and replaces the ceiling tiles, we have mentioned to the landlords they may have a mold issue because of the trouble breathing(Especially in the bedroom). My ex girlfriend who has Lupus and Cervical cancer moved out of the apt (around June 21stish) due to her having some serious breathing issues. So now almost 2 months later Aug 11th they haven't checked into the mold issues or anything involving air quality in the apartment. Neither of the landlords have ever even been here yet, Nor have we met them, We asked them at the beginning to put a deadbolt on our door and put window locks on the windows and to this day they never came and did it or came to see any of it...We rented through their property manager. So I have been in this apartment alone for almost 2 months now. She tells me she has to have breathing treatments for the mold and her medical bills from this place racked up to 12k, and that she has a lawyer involved with this. She informs me she emailed them proposing that they break the lease with no penalty and she won't take them to court for the medical bills. She tells me to just move my stuff out by September 1st because her "lawyer" said hes 175% sure that they cant take us for anything for being dead beat landlords in the whole situation. I hope I covered enough information here, I really dont know what to do. Kind of scared to just move out and stop paying without the landlord agreeing to the proposal. Any and all help/information is greatly appreciated.
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