Month to month verbal lease in Connecticut.
I’m renting a small apartment over a 2 car garage that has an oil fired boiler below the bedroom. This apartment gets really cold as I have just learned. The last tenant (the owners brother) put fiber glass insulation paper side up against the ceiling to attempt to insulate it. No gypsym board over the insulation though.
The boiler works (but is noisy at start up) and heat is supplied but the last technician Last to service it wrote on the service label the following:
Needs new Boiler + Chimney Liner and Chamber N.F.
I have asked him 4-5 times if he could have the furnace serviced and he states the technician was just trying to sell him a boiler and liner.
I'm afraid to run the heat at night while asleep and the aparment gets down to 49 F on a 35 F morning.
Well I had him over yesterday and brought forward some suggestions.
1) Have the furnace serviced, guaranteed safe, and if it is bad and unsafe, I give him $2500 towards a new one applied to rent. If it is bad, unsafe, and he can’t fix it, allow me to leave and pro rate my rent (reimburse for time not used).
2) I also brought forward issues were some of the paper of the insulation was exposed to the garage area and should be covered by sheet rock.
3) I told him all the old wiring dangling from the ceiling should be taken down and the spliced multi socked extension cord without a junction box also taken down as the splice needs to be in a junction box.
His response was that things are not working out, I am building a case against him, and I should find another apartment and I pleaded with him to let me stay on and he agreed.
This morning he went back on his word and left a message on my machine telling me I’m the type of guy that is always looking for something wrong to complain about and I should leave. The apartment was immediately advertised on Craig’s list and he gave a potential renter my phone number who called me demanding to see the apartment soon as he is down from Boston looking for apartments and I obliged this.
Well in a panic I went out and rented another apartment.
I’m wondering if I was wronged here and are there any damages I can claim or should I leave it as is and part ways with taking my security deposit with me.
Link to mp3 of voice message on my answering machine: I assume it is admissable as the landord knows hes being recorded.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a05f490/n/LandLord_MP3
Thanks for all opinions

