landlord and the tenant.
704.44(7)(7) Imposes liability on a tenant for any of the following:
704.44(7)(a)(a) Personal injury arising from causes clearly beyond the tenant’s control.
704.44(7)(b)(b) Property damage caused by natural disasters or by persons other than the tenant or the tenant’s guests or invitees. This paragraph does not affect ordinary maintenance obligations of a tenant under s. 704.07 or assumed by a tenant under a rental agreement or other written agreement between the landlord and the tenant.
704.44(8)(8) Waives any statutory or other legal obligation on the part of the landlord to deliver the premises in a fit or habitable condition or to maintain the premises during the tenant’s tenancy.
704.44(9)(9) Allows the landlord to terminate the tenancy of a tenant based solely on the commission of a crime in or on the rental property if the tenant, or someone who lawfully resides with the tenant, is the victim, as defined in s. 950.02 (4), of that crime.
704.44(10)(10) Allows the landlord to terminate the tenancy of a tenant for a crime committed in relation to the rental property and the rental agreement does not include the notice required under s. 704.14.
704.44 HistoryHistory: 2007 a. 184; 2011 a. 143; 2013 a. 76.
704.44 AnnotationA lease that prohibited the “use of the premises for an unlawful purpose” and did not include the notice of domestic abuse protections required by s. 704.14 was void and unenforceable under sub. (10). The fact that the relevant lease provision may have been valid under s. 704.17 (3m) had no impact on whether that same provision violated the distinct requirements under sub. (10). Koble Investments v. Marquardt, 2024 WI App 26, 412 Wis. 2d 1, 7 N.W.3d 915, 22-0182.
704.44 AnnotationA provision requiring the tenant to pay for