https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/lower-rent Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/tenant-rights/lower-rent#comment-1003 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:39:02 +0000 http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/blog/renter?p=213#comment-1003 Not only can you ask for a rent decrease, it is probably written within the contact as such. What you are referring to is called “Rent Abatement.” Rent Abatement basically limits the landlords liability to nothing more than cost of rent. Most rental contracts will have a clause dedicated to this type of thing.
Check your agreement to see if it has anything about rent abatement.

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