Excuse my cynicism, but it's all hopeless in the current market where vacancy rate is close to zero. Landlords have tenants over a barrel.

I'm a tenant and my solar panel system stopped working last year. I put in a maintenance request. Was told that this is such a big expense for the landlord that it was not a standard maintenance request and would be up to them to decide timeframe and what they were going to do. Rang the tenant advice line. Was told that reasonable timeframe has no strict definition, that I was entitled to a repair but that pushing for it could result in lease termination at the next available opportunity and they advised against pushing too hard. Suggested I negotiate a rent reduction in line with the extra electricity cost. I got the rent reduced by $10/week for 2 months before the agency forgot about it and put the payment back up again. And then my lease was terminated 3 months later. I sorely regret making the initial report and maintenance request.

A lot of property managers are young and are tenants themselves. I was shocked when the one who did the most recent inspection said he'd been without a working oven for over a year and his air fryer was the best thing to happen to him. I knew for sure he wasn't going to get the the landlord to follow the laws if he'd accepted that state of affairs for himself.