Compensation due to Safety violation

[Poker 123]

I live in New Jersey and entered into a 1 year lease on September 1st 2017 (In New Jersey). At the time I signed the lease the Landlord informed me that he had a temporary C.O. due to him needing to install a big window on the second floor(3 bedrooms) so that there is a second means of egress. After several issues arose between the landlord and the city (for not being to code) the Landlord informed me in June that we may have to vacate due to this issue. I told him that I was not going to pay rent starting with June because if I had to move it would expensive. A couple days later he told me that he may have a solution and had a court date. After the court date he said he received an extension and the window was finally installed 0n 8/6/2018. My question is, am I entitled to some sort of compensation or back rent for living in a building that was not to code and endangered my family while I was staying there?

 

[xylene]

Did you pay June rent eventually?

 

[Just Blue]

I live in New Jersey and entered into a 1 year lease on September 1st 2017 (In New Jersey). At the time I signed the lease the Landlord informed me that he had a temporary C.O. due to him needing to install a big window on the second floor(3 bedrooms) so that there is a second means of egress. After several issues arose between the landlord and the city (for not being to code) the Landlord informed me in June that we may have to vacate due to this issue. I told him that I was not going to pay rent starting with June because if I had to move it would expensive. A couple days later he told me that he may have a solution and had a court date. After the court date he said he received an extension and the window was finally installed 0n 8/6/2018. My question is, am I entitled to some sort of compensation or back rent for living in a building that was not to code and endangered my family while I was staying there?

Short answer...No. You knew about this issue and chose to stay there.

 

[FarmerJ]

I cant think of any special compensation due to you because the LL did comply with city orders even though it took a extension to get it done,. You still were able to live there since the city did not condemn the property. BTW if you had discovered this a while back what stopped you from claiming that your unit was not safe sooner and moving out ?

 

[xylene]

Short answer...No. You knew about this issue and chose to stay there.

I'm not entirely certain that OP owes for the rent the landlord may not have been able to collect legally during the period the building might have been without a CO. The fate of the possibly withheld rent and the CO issuance are going to be key.

 

[reenzz]

I'm not entirely certain that OP owes for the rent the landlord may not have been able to collect legally during the period the building might have been without a CO. The fate of the possibly withheld rent and the CO issuance are going to be key.

OP stated that the landlord did have a temporary CO.

 

[xylene]

OP stated that the landlord did have a temporary CO.

I'm positing that the temp CO may have been revoked, which would be really important for the OP to specifically investigate.

The CO is more consequential than the OP's knowing of the defect, which as you said was covered under a temp CO which they were aware of.