No lease clause can waive it, no ‘as-is’ rental exists in California housing, and no rent obligation survives a truly uninhabitable unit. Green v. Superior Court settled this in 1974. Fifty years later, landlords still act like maintenance is charity.
Document, notice, deadline, remedy. In that order.
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