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Wausau committee orders rent abatement after hot-water outage at 615 Whirley Ave.
Summary
The Public Health and Safety Committee found the landlord failed to provide hot water and ordered a rent abatement retroactive to Oct. 18, 2024 through Nov. 13, 2024, awarding 75% of monthly rent listed in the committee’s determination as $1,058.88.
The Public Health and Safety Committee of the Wausau Common Council on Jan. 27, 2025 ordered a rent abatement for tenants of 615 Whirley Avenue after city inspectors determined the unit lacked hot water and was unfit for human occupancy.
The committee found that the property owner, Anna M. Lopez, doing business as Real Estate Investments, owned the rental on Oct. 18, 2024, and that tenants Angel Holstein and Malik Marks had a lease beginning Dec. 22, 2023. The Inspection and Zoning Division posted the structure as unfit for human occupancy on Oct. 18, 2024 and mailed a code violation notice requiring compliance that same day, the committee said.
In the committee’s findings of fact, a reinspection on Nov. 13, 2024 verified there was still no hot…
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