GA renter rights
landlord tenant attorney Georgia Aug 17, 2026
Location: Georgia, USA Hello, I just recently moved into a new apartment. When I originally looked around the apartment it looked fine, so I signed the lease. However, on my first official day of moving, I found about three baby roaches in a closet. So I walked around & found one crawling behind the refrigerator, and another one in the bathtub. I told management, and they said they would ask the pest control guy to clean my apartment this Wednesday, but she gave me a tube of roach killer to apply around the apt until then. That’s when I realized the extent of the problem. The morning after I applied the pesticide, I come back to see 30 dead roaches on the floor. There’s some crawling in the carpet. One on the ceiling. I apply some more that same day, and later find there’s another 15 or so dead, more crawling around the ceiling, one dead in the refrigerator, and one crawling around the kitchen sink. I signed my lease less than a week ago, but even with the cleaning they may do to my apartment I don’t think I’ll ever feel comfortable staying here. I sent the leasing office photos and an email stating that I wasn’t comfortable staying the night until after pest control visits. Oh, I also found a roach crawling out of my pile of laundry in the communal fucking washer today. They’re everywhere in that complex. So my question is, is there any possible way I can break the lease because of this in GA? I know it’s very early, but this is disgusting.
