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My apartment is on the ground floor and the upstairs leaks (from where no one knows) into my living room. This took 5 days to fix in Feb. and I requested to move units or at least have a mold inspection done as the place smelled awful afterwards. I was denied both and they said painting it would suffice.

Last Saturday the leak came back in full force and more of the ceiling came down (small pieces, but pieces). The carpet got wet. With other issues (electrical and with the mail box) not being taken care of, along with them not responding to the leak until three days later (after I threatened to break the lease) I decided I was fed up and want to break it. I looked through the lease and it says that if "if repair hasn't been made within 7 days, you may terminate the Lease Contract and exercise statutory remedies. Security deposits and prorated rent will be refunded as required by law."

If the leak is stopped but the ceiling and carpet have not been fixed within seven days can I still terminate my lease?