Landlords liability for food and stuff when refrigerator breaks

[Asad Chag]

All in all it was 20 day process, which tenant knew very well...he is claiming food etc. whats my responsibility.

[Greg M.]

You need a clause in your lease to prevent this from coming up. I use: Landlord is not responsible for damage or loss due to the failure of the appliances or the interruption of water/gas/power to those appliances, including but not limited to the loss of food.

This has worked out well for me with tenants claiming the washer/dryer ruined their clothes and the broken fridge/freezer caused a loss of food... So sorry to hear that, refer to clause #11 in the lease.

Since I put this in my lease, I've paid for food for one tenant because they were an awesome tenant, very low income, and provided me a market receipt showing that they had just shopped before the freezer died and I saw their ruined food.