Wisconsin

For Wisconsin, what the presumption does is a landlord in a residential tenancy may not increase rent, decrease services, bring an action for possession of the premises, refuse to renew a lease or threaten any of the foregoing, if there is a preponderance of evidence that the action or inaction would not occur but for the landlord’s retaliation against the tenant; example of a protected activity is Making a good faith complaint about a defect in the premises to an elected public official or a local housing code enforcement agency; statute is Wis. Stat. 704.45, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.

What the source says

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) , a landlord in a residential tenancy may not increase rent, decrease services, bring an action for possession of the premises, refuse to renew a lease or threaten any of the foregoing, if there is a preponderance of evidence that the action or inaction would not occur but for the landlord’s retaliation against the tenant for doing any of the following:

— docs.legis.wisconsin.gov, retrieved 2026-09-02

Where each value comes from

The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.

— all from docs.legis.wisconsin.gov, retrieved 2026-09-02

Source

• docs.legis.wisconsin.govhttps://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/704/45

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