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last night I came home around 10 PM and my house was flooded..... the plastic fitting on one of my toilet's makeup water split and made a waterfall for a few hours while I was out....I just spent all night cleaning and I've still got 3 rooms with water in them....seriously an inch of water through most of the house last night....it soaked through the walls and soaked one of my neighbor's apt as well....I currently have no lease, it ran out over a year ago and I never signed a new one....but it says the rules of the lease are to carry beyond that document's expiration date....I get along with my landlord but the buiding 4 times in the last 1.5 years the main drain plugged up and the nasty side of the water pipes backed up....1 time I had to clean this up the other 3 the landlord and his wife cleaned it all for me.....I am always on time with my rent with exception of 1 month after my mother died......now I have soo much water saturation I know my beds are ruined and a ton of Tattoo supplies I just purchased....NOW for the real kick in the head...I've been working on a project for work and we use very specific very expensive programmable controllers on...I set up a small test network on the floor before going out last night....yes it's all ruined...it is also Super critical that all of those be working on monday so they can be installed in a facility that employs over 9000 people....I've been prepping the site for 2 months getting everything ready to change over on monday since pres day the place will be a ghost town and I will be able to shut down entire air handling systems as we replace them....THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN NOW....I seriously am afraid of loosing my job over this....that would not only affect me but also my father as I am paying his health insurace since he lost his job due to a degenerative condition he's recently been diagnosed with(another long story)......again I like my landlord but I may be really fiddlesticked over all this....I'm waiting to hear back from my boss about what we can do, but it doesn't look good.....
does anyone know if I have any recourse against my landlord in this case.....I understand things break and it's not his fault but I am renting for this very purpose, So I don't have to worry about these issues......he said last night no plumbers or cleanup crews were available to come out.....it wouldn't have made a difference in the damage done but I dunno what I'm asking I just needed to vent....any input on what rights I have would be appreciated...no speculations please I have a head full of them until I hear back from my lawyer......
last night I came home around 10 PM and my house was flooded..... the plastic fitting on one of my toilet's makeup water split and made a waterfall for a few hours while I was out....I just spent all night cleaning and I've still got 3 rooms with water in them....seriously an inch of water through most of the house last night....it soaked through the walls and soaked one of my neighbor's apt as well....I currently have no lease, it ran out over a year ago and I never signed a new one....but it says the rules of the lease are to carry beyond that document's expiration date....I get along with my landlord but the buiding 4 times in the last 1.5 years the main drain plugged up and the nasty side of the water pipes backed up....1 time I had to clean this up the other 3 the landlord and his wife cleaned it all for me.....I am always on time with my rent with exception of 1 month after my mother died......now I have soo much water saturation I know my beds are ruined and a ton of Tattoo supplies I just purchased....NOW for the real kick in the head...I've been working on a project for work and we use very specific very expensive programmable controllers on...I set up a small test network on the floor before going out last night....yes it's all ruined...it is also Super critical that all of those be working on monday so they can be installed in a facility that employs over 9000 people....I've been prepping the site for 2 months getting everything ready to change over on monday since pres day the place will be a ghost town and I will be able to shut down entire air handling systems as we replace them....THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN NOW....I seriously am afraid of loosing my job over this....that would not only affect me but also my father as I am paying his health insurace since he lost his job due to a degenerative condition he's recently been diagnosed with(another long story)......again I like my landlord but I may be really fiddlesticked over all this....I'm waiting to hear back from my boss about what we can do, but it doesn't look good.....
does anyone know if I have any recourse against my landlord in this case.....I understand things break and it's not his fault but I am renting for this very purpose, So I don't have to worry about these issues......he said last night no plumbers or cleanup crews were available to come out.....it wouldn't have made a difference in the damage done but I dunno what I'm asking I just needed to vent....any input on what rights I have would be appreciated...no speculations please I have a head full of them until I hear back from my lawyer......