Our landlord just told us to leave...I am so stressed right now

Long story short we have been living here for almost 3 years now. We have a 2 year old and I’m currently pregnant with baby number 2 due in December.

Since we moved in we have been great tenants. We treat the home as if it was our own. We don’t keep the home messy, dirty, or damages. We keep up with maintenance such as filters for the home (even though that’s technically his job!) and we never would send him receipts for it or anything - we just wanted to keep a good relationship with him. We always pay our rent.

The first summer we we’re here the central air wasn’t working properly. I couldn’t keep up and would freeze up and we would literally need to keep it off all day and night. It was terrible. I was so hot especially being pregnant. He didn’t fix the problem. Come the next summer when the baby was already here it was doing it again. We had to complain to the landlord multiple times. He finally said for US to call someone, so we did. When the guy quoted him he said it was too much money. So we had to wait another week and he eventually had someone come “fix” it. But it still wasn’t keeping up. Even this summer we’ve had to turn it off a few times (of course while I’m pregnant again!!!)

About a year ago our dryer stopped working. We were trying to get ahold of him to fix it for 3 months. there were wet clothes all over our house drying - it was horrible. Especially with a baby that had multiple changes. We withheld rent that 4th month in hopes that he would contact us - which he did. He said he was out of the country and we ended up getting it fixed. We obviously gave him the rent as soon as we heard back from him, we were just very frustrated and didn’t know what to do at that point.

Now for the past 6 or so months we’ve had two smoke detectors that don’t work. We had to remove them. The first department have been here probably about 5 times because they kept going off in the middle of the night for no reason, we would have to wake up our son and go into the car until they showed up. It was super inconvenient. Eventually they told us to remove them and that they need to be replaced. That it’s not our job, to contact our landlord. Which we did.

It’s been 4 months since he’s been aware of the issue. When we first told him he said it’s the batteries, we told him we changed them multiple times and that the fire department even changed them themselves and said they don’t even know what’s wrong with them. We didn’t hear from him for 3 weeks, so we contacted him again and he said the same thing. We didn’t hear from him for 2 weeks, so we kept contacting him and he was literally ignoring us. We ended up contacting the fire department again and they came here and put a temporary one up so that it was safe for our family but told us that the landlord needs to replace the others.

They actually contacted him and told him that he has a deadline or else he could get a fine. He contacted us and asked which ones, we sent a photo. We didn’t hear from him for a month so we asked if he found someone to install them and he told us to do it. My husband told him its his responsibility that he needs to come do it or send someone out. Long story short the fire department have contacted him 3 times now and nothing has been fixed.

We’re getting so fed up with him not keeping up with maintenance of the house so we decided no more will we be paying for filters or anything. It’s his job. We didn’t care about the little things, but since he never wants to fix the big things, now were just not going to do anything.

our fridge filter light came on so we texted him a photo and asked him if he could please replace it since it’s saying it’s time to change it. He texted back “thanks” then 2 minutes later he said “I want to move please find some place else”

Now I’m stressing like CRAZY! I have a baby that’s going to be born in 3 months. We have to find a place, pack, move, and set up/buy everything our baby needs in that time. I find it obvious that it’s because he doesn’t want to fix any problems.

Due to covid my husband got laid off. He is trying to start up a business so he does some cash jobs. And since I’m pregnant and have a 2 year old at home I’m not working either. So we don’t actually have “proof of income” except for government stuff. So I’m stressing even more because I’m like how are we even going to get a place. My husband was thinking of possibly working for skip the dishes or Uber for proof of income - because he does make decent money with cash jobs, we just need something steady to prove. But I’m not sure if that would even be enough?

What do you think we should do? Any suggestions? I’m anxiety is through the roof