My family and I are renting a home from a landlord who lives out of state. When we moved in we had a verbal agreement that he would repair the driveway, as the concrete was so bad that there was no longer an incline and our cars were scraping the end of the driveway as we backed out.

He finally put in 4 feet of concrete driveway after a year of us asking. We reminded him that he also promised to put in gravel as the rest of the driveway was dirt and he agreed. After 3 more months he sent a crew out to even the driveway with dirt. The crew didn't return for 3 more weeks and in the meantime we had a major rain. Our SUV was in the driveway and with the newly laid dirt we ended up with very deep mud. When we attempted to back the SUV out of the driveway it slid into the concrete wall alongside our home and scraped the vehicle, causing pretty good damage.

Is he legally responsible for the damage to the car because of the poor condition of the driveway?
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My husband knows how to drive in the mud. He goes offroading all the time. Our SUV is a two wheel drive and the tires aren't meant for mud. The driveway is on an incline so it slid...has nothing to do with our driving skills. We have to leave to go to work so we have to move the car from the driveway.

We take excellent care of the house. We have painted, done extensive cleaning, and minor repairs on it. We pay for a house with a driveway and now it is unusable.

Guess we have a slum lord on our hands.