# Texas Renters: Who Pays for Repairs? (Landlord vs Tenant) | Who Pays the Repair?

> Texas Property Code Section 92.052 requires landlords to repair conditions affecting health or safety. See tenant remedies if they don't fix it.

**Who pays:** landlord

In Texas, the landlord must diligently repair conditions materially affecting health/safety or hot water under Property Code Section 92.052, unless the tenant caused the damage; if the landlord doesn't fix it after proper notice, the tenant can terminate the lease, repair-and-deduct, or sue under Section 92.056.

**Boundary:** Texas landlords must make a diligent effort to repair conditions that materially affect an ordinary tenant's health or safety, or a broken hot-water heater, once properly notified, under Property Code Section 92.052.

**Exceptions:** Unless caused by normal wear and tear, the landlord has no duty to repair a condition caused by the tenant, a lawful occupant, a family member, or a guest/invitee of the tenant (Section 92.052(b)).

## Sources
- [Property Code Section 92.052 (landlord's duty to repair or remedy)](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.92.htm) — "A landlord shall make a diligent effort to repair or remedy a condition if: (1) the tenant specifies the condition in a notice to the person to whom or to the place where rent is normally paid; (2) the tenant is not delinquent in the payment of rent at the time notice is given; and (3) the condition: (A) materially affects the physical health or safety of an ordinary tenant." (accessed 2026-09-13)
- [Property Code Section 92.052(b) (tenant-caused conditions excluded from landlord's duty)](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.92.htm) — "Unless the condition was caused by normal wear and tear, the landlord does not have a duty during the lease term or a renewal or extension to repair or remedy a condition caused by: (1) the tenant; (2) a lawful occupant in the tenant's dwelling; (3) a member of the tenant's family; or (4) a guest or invitee of the tenant." (accessed 2026-09-13)
- [Property Code Section 92.056(e) (tenant remedies once landlord is liable)](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.92.htm) — "a tenant to whom a landlord is liable under Subsection (b) of this section may: (1) terminate the lease; (2) have the condition repaired or remedied according to Section 92.0561; (3) deduct from the tenant's rent, without necessity of judicial action, the cost of the repair or remedy according to Section 92.0561; and (4) obtain judicial remedies according to Section 92.0563." (accessed 2026-09-13)

_Last verified 2026-09-13. Source: Who Pays the Repair? — https://whopaystherepair.com/rules/texas-landlord-tenant-repair-responsibility/ — every claim checked against a primary source before publication (see /methodology/)._