This is one of the most common questions Arizona homeowners ask, and the instinct behind it is sound. You are paying for landscaping that is dead, a pool that is closed, or a gate that has not worked since spring. Withholding feels like the obvious response. 

It is also the one move that reliably hurts more than helps a homeowner, and it can have devastating effects. 

(So, short answer, no. And doing it will cost you the leverage you currently have) … Learn what you can do instead.