My partner and I are trying to move to a new apartment, since we moved into our current place the landlord has left his belongings in the apartment and done nothing about the growing mould in our bedroom. Which he promised would be sorted when we first moved in, so he sent a painter who said he was the wrong person for the job. Since then, which was four months ago, he still hasn't done anything. The mould is continuing to grow and has made us ill on few occasions. So we've told our landlord we want to move and he is refusing to give us our two months deposit (1200 euros) which is understandable as we're breaking contract. However, I haven't paid the rent this month as I thought this is what would happen and I'm not happy with the lack of his effort to keep his property up to code, but now he is demanding we pay it and is coming to inspect the place on the 31st.

Does anyone know if I have any rights over holding the months rent? And what will happen if I don't pay it? Oh to make this more difficult, our landlord is a lawyer himself.