Questions about avoiding a lease due to landlord property neglect

Location: Memphis, TN

Me and my wife have been dealing with issues regarding our landlord and a property that was rented to us that had significant issues since we moved in. Most recently a part of our ceiling in our kitchen completely collapsed from water damage that we had reported to them and that they had said they had fixed. We've had the fire department come out right as it happened because it hit our gas stove, which caused it to turn on and almost caused a fire, and we have code enforcement coming sometime next week.

Our landlord has begun repairs on the hole and has covered it in a plastic tarp and had a repair man out. We asked them to provide us a timeline of when things will be fixed through email and through our renters portal and received nothing back. Additionally, all of the people who have come to help us are not hired by our leasing company and our contractors and are unsure of a timeframe.

We no longer feel safe in the home and we're trying to explore if there's any options for us to avoid our lease. We are not planning to withhold pay at all and are paying our lease on time, but this issue is a part of a long list of problems which I've detailed below. We're hoping that that creates a precedent of neglect that we can use to get out of our lease. We've spoken to our landlord, and their response to all of these problems has been word for word "these things just happen with houses," so I do not believe that they are going to try and let us out peacefully.

This saga has been hell:

• Moved in, had no gas or water and a broken stove
• Calcified pipes, which did not allow us to have running water for a week and a half
• Broken water heater
• Messed up installing the new water heater which led to a leak and short that took out one side of our entire house
• Attempted to fix the short and failed, which caused an arcing circuit under our sink which almost killed me
• Carport broke and almost smashed one of our cars
• AC randomly stopped working for 2 weeks (luckily in winter)
• Leak in the roof, which caused a terrible smell and mildew in our kitchen
• 8 foot hole in the ceiling of our kitchen <- We are here