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    Default Can I Break My Lease Due to Health Issues

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Idaho

    We signed a lease with-option to buy back in August. It is a 2 year lease with a quite a few verbal statements that never made it into the lease. We are wondering if we have any room to stand on to get out of this lease. Currently I am 6 months pregnant, the house was supposed to get new windows through state help, but that never happened, the windows and sills have mold and I am concerned for my and my unborn baby's health. Also the basement (we found after moving in because the landlord's belongings blocked the opening) is open to dirt and infested with mice. We were told that the septic had been pumped while they were here, in which they were here for 3 1/2 years, after a plumbing emergency they informed us it hasn't been pumped for 7-8 years. Also, the home was never inspected by the county for home or health. We have been speaking with another gentlemen about a home if we can get out of this home. That gentlemen called our current landlord to ask about rent payments. Our landlord got very bullyish and started throwing lawyers names out and talking aobut garnishing wages if we move out. Now in our lease the only thing about breaking our lease is that if they cannot re-rent it then we are liable for rent til the end of the lease. However, we were also given a verbal agreement that if we changed our minds about purchasing the home that we could opt out and only lose our deposit. We have paid our last months rent up front and also wondering if we help find or pay for the ads for the house to be re-rented and they decline any new tenants do they lose out on us paying the rent or ?? This is a one man show kind of thing, he owns this house, never did a credit check or anything on us, we were thinking of buying the home after I graduated from college, but now am looking at getting transferred when I graduate. Sorry so long, but where do we stand legally?

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    Default Re: Can I Break My Lease Due to Health Issues

    The courts are typically going to hold you to whatever is written within the lease that you signed. If amendments were made, the court will want to see those in writing too.

    Also, you'll want to be able to show a court that you have provided written summary of the problems to the landlord, and, that the landlord, after being notified of such problems, has refused or neglected to address them.

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