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January my husband I and three children moved into a another house. This house is a older double wide with a huge fenced in yard. We pay our rent three months ahead of time. Well after we moved in we noticed that we only had hot water for a couple of minutes and sometimes not at all. So the landlord came over that weekend. He stated that the element was going out and that it was our fault because we use to much water. He went across the street to the neighbors house and yelled that we were his shitty tenants and that we use up all the water. He did not get a new hot water heater until the next weekend. After he put in the hot water heater he lectured us and told us that if we did not stop doing the dishes all day and taking so many baths that the elements were going to go out on this to. We are hardly home; therefore we do not use that much water! Then he started telling us that our kitchen was a mess and that he was evicting us. I said you can not evict us for a good faith complaint. He was obviously retailiating. Our kitchen was messy becuase we had cold water! We could not do our dishes. So I said no we are hiring a lawyer. A week later we had no hot water at all. At first I thought that he turned the hot water off. So I called the sherriff. He did not turn the hot water off, we just didn't have hot water something was wrong. We called him, wrote him two letters to inform him about the problem. It took him nine days to fix the problem. He did not install the hot water heater correctly in the first place. By law this is supposed to be fixed within 24 hours. Now I am past the eviction date, waiting for the court date. He is trying to say that we are hold over tenants. We have done nothing wrong but want hot water