[Wisconsin]Landlord wont keep any promises after we have moved in, also shut our power off, is there anything we can do? legaladvice

My girlfriend and I recently moved into a house around the beginning of the month with our 5 month old son. While going over the lease we were told we would be responsible for electric and water bills. We ended up forgetting to switch the electric in our name, so about 2 weeks after we moved in, our landlord called and had our power shut off for the weekend with no advance warning of it being shut off from her or the power company.

We called and had the power switched in our name, and had to wait until the following monday to restore the power.

After the power was back on we called again to ask why we weren't given a notice of the power being shut off, the support person said that it may have been illegal for her to do this, and that our land lord should of had it switched over in our name when she made the call to shut it off.

I've read that in some cases its the tenants responsibility to switch and in some situations its the land lords. Our land lord wont give us a copy of our lease even though we've asked a few times now so I have no clue whos responsibility it is.

She has also promised to fix a lot of things that are wrong with the house, like the cracked front window, and broken locks on some of the windows. We called her everyday until she sent some random guy over to look at the window, he basically just looked at the window with out taking measurements and left. So we are guess that she sent the guy over to shut us up.

She also told us she would get a stove and refrigerator put in, but we ended up buying our own after many excuses from her as to why she hasn't got any yet. We also found out by looking up her court records that she has taken every tenet that has lived at this address to small claims court, so we are very concerned that she will try to takes us to court at some point. So we are also wondering what we could do to help us if she decides to also drag us into court.

We are also trying to figure out if there is a way for us to legally break the lease based on the information I've provided. This is our first time renting a house and are at a loss as to what we can do at this point.

Submitted September 30, 2014 at 12:51PM by route12 http://ift.tt/1wTiq4M legaladvice