Is a Tenant allowed to fix maintenance issues without informing the Landloard

[Swathi Vijayakumar]

Hi All

I have a tenant who on various occasions has fixed issues that have come up and deducting the cost from the rent without reporting the issue until after repairs are made.  We usually find out that there was an issue at the time of rent payment as a reason for the deduction. The tenant hasn't sent any receipts for the repairs even after multiple requests. I have two questions around this:

. 1) what are the legal implications of this is some sort of issue arises form the repairs.  Who would be responsible/liable?

  2) How to handle a situation that the tenant claims is an emergency that needed to be handle within a couple hours if you as the landlord doesn't believe is an emergency. Ex: Ants in the kitchen that needed an emergency spraying the same day which is why the tenant couldn't inform us before getting it done.