We realize many Vermonters have to boil their water from time to time, but there are strict rental laws about tenants having a safe, potable water supply. Sometimes renters have to boil it when there's water boil notices, but legally they can't have to boil it for every time due to consistent unsafe water that is due to a problem with the water supply. For weeks we couldn't use the water for anything at all, even washing our hands or showering, because it was full of bleach when they kept just pouring bleach in the water supply to try to fix the issue.

We mentioned the mice to the health inspector due to the very fact that our landlord wasn't taking sufficient action to curb the mice. They told the health inspector they were doing lots of trapping and blocking holes, but in 5 months they set 5 single traps and filled 3 out of many many holes. That's it. We realize our landlord isn't solely responsible for trapping and filling holes, we ourselves set and empty traps daily and continue blocking holes regularly. Our landlord often tells us they are coming to check and reset traps but they never come, and they don't want us removing certain panels to set traps because they don't want the panels to break, but there's always tons of mice in those places so we have no choice but to do it ourselves.

The mice issue was among the issues we reported to the health inspector. The chimney and roof were leaking, with water pouring down a wall whenever it rained. Our landlord responded by simply placing a trash bag over the chinney. There was tons of mold resulting from the leak. Additionally, there were fire safety violations that the health inspector was very concerned about and made our landlord fix.