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Hilder v. St. Peter
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144 Vt. 150, 478 A.2d 202ProfessorTodd Berman
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Hilder entered into an oral lease with St. Peter for an apartment. Throughout the fourteen month lease, Hilder paid all rents and a security deposit. St. Peter never cleaned the previous tenant‘s mess out of the space, so they offered Hilder the return of the security deposit—but the security deposit was never returned. During the course of the lease, a broken window was discovered, the locks were never changed, the toilet was not functioning properly, the bathroom had no electricity, water and raw sewage from leaking pipes filled the space, large chunks of plaster fell from the walls; none of which St. Peter corrected and all of which Hilder paid to correct or otherwise mitigated.
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Landlord and Tenant Duties and Remedies for Breach