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Landlord Won't Fix Anything In This House

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Location: Virginia

Mine and my partners landlord claims he keeps "forgetting" to do very important maintenance on the house, things that, according to the lease, we aren't allowed to do ourselves. There is a hole in my kitchen ceiling from when we had a plumbing problem and they send a plumber to the house. We have asked and asked and asked, and they still haven't fixed it. Our stairs have been broken for almost 2 years according to the last tennant, (who was a roommate for a bit), the washer that comes with the property is broken, so we have to go to the laundromat, there is mold in the downstairs bathroom that they havent bothered to look at, and when we tried to get an inspection on the property, the landlord shut it down, despite that being something that we have a right to request in our lease. I just want them to fix the things that they say they're going to fix. Supposedly our current roommate made a deal that he would be a handyman around the house in exchange for discounted rent, but he doesn't do that at all, and hasn't since he moved in here. My question is, is there anything I can do about this legally? I don't know what kind of approach to take, or what I can do, if anything at all. Any help or advice would be appreciated, thank you!

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