My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Washington State
My husband and i moved into our rental home on July 1st 2013 and have been occupying the house for almost 6 months. We currently have a 1 year lease. Initially when we decided to rent the house it was based on the description that was in the rental listing as well as liking the home. The problem we are running into is most of the things that were included on the listing are not in working order. Examples being: Broken hot-tub, broken sprinkler system, detached 2 car garage no accessible. I sent an email shortly after we moved in asking for the keys to the garage and they said sorry I’ts not included. I sent in a maintenance request on 9/24 to have both the sprinkler system and the hot tub fixed. With the response "sorry the hot tub is not included " even though it was included in the rental listing. As for the Sprinkler system nothing has been done. Furthermore the back deck is rotting i have put in two maintenance request. They came out once and replaced a board, secondly thee guy that fixed the board went back to company and told them more needed to be fixed. I put in an additional maintenance request for the deck as i feel it is still a liability for my family and dogs. They came out today to take photos but as far as what i have been reading in the RCW's they have 10 days to fix things that i put maintenance request in. It is now winter time and we are paying roughly 500.00 a month to heat the house and merely just tired of dealing with the rental company and want out of the house.. BTW i have copies of EVERYTHING.
My first question: Since they included everything in the Rental listing is this Illegal and considered "bait and switch advertising"
Secondly: Based on the information i provided do we have enough leverage to break our lease and get our deposit back.
Thank you so very much for your time, Kirsten

