Landlord Is Not Maintaining Our Commercial Property And Now Is No Longer Supplying Waste Removal
Ohio - we rent a unit in a strip mall with 10 units total. Some businesses are using multiple locations. Total there are 5 spots available, with 4 of them occupied.
Our building was sold to a new landlord a few years ago and he has been doing less and less of what he's responsible for. First he started painting the entire building but left 1/4 of it entirely unpainted for an entire year now. Second he tore up these bushes and trees from a common area, left the brush on the ground for months, finally came through and collected it but now the area is just uneven mounds of dirt.
Finally, the breaking point for me, he decided last week we are responsible for our own waste removal. He removed everyone's dumpsters except for his own businesses in the strip. I assumed that we were just getting new dumpsters, and I was taking our waste to the next dumpster down the strip (this was a common solution to garbage issues with the previous landlord.)
I was told today that we are responsible for our own waste removal now. We are a small restaurant that goes through a lot of waste daily. My understanding of the law is a landlord with more than 4 units is responsible for all waste removal. Our lease doesn't explicitly mention waste removal at all, but states clearly the landlord is responsible for all common areas.
Are we due a dumpster or trash removal of some kind by the landlord, or am I misinterpreting the law?
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