Are landlords gods.?

As a renter in Dalton ,GA my landlord as not done no repairs to the place, when we call him we get this dell about it needs to be in writing so,we write to him but nothing gets done,we had no fan for are unit for a month and haft noting was done ,so i withhelled my rent ,but bay state law i wrong. This is just big money talking ,no rights for us.