My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of Texas:
We live in an old apartment complex that is managed by a big management company. The maintenance and the office staff are generally fairly helpful, if a little clueless. We have lived here for 6 years, but only in the last year or so have they bothered to call before coming out, which means only recently have I been able to regularly let them in to do maintenance work as everyone who lives here works, and I'm the only one that's often here during the day, and I sleep with a CPAP machine, which makes my hearing close to nil.
We have a situation where water leaks into our second bedroom walk-in closet. Over the years, they have been made aware, and they have come out, "fixed the problem", tore out the ceiling, put in a wooden board, and painted over it. Then it leaks again. We've been through this three times. The last time I personally stuck my head in there, it was starting to leak again, though only a tiny bit, not more than what the complex has already said they are comfortable ignoring and letting dry in other areas of the apartment.
The person who would generally use that closet has decided to just ignore the problem, leaving the door closed and not storing anything in it. My question is this - if we move, and there's damage in there, is that on us, even though they've been made aware of the problem multiple times? If they do decide to come after us for money after we've moved, can they put it on our credit, or do they have to take us to court?
Thank you for any insight. The TAA has been, predictably, useless in finding this info.

