As a frequent reader of /r/legaladvice and seeing all of the situations involving landlords and tenants, I've been pretty shocked. Between college and now I've been renting for around 20 years. So far, nobody's even withheld my security deposit.
Incidents have happened, a few of which were partially my fault. Strangely, mostly water related. For example:
Three water tank heaters failed and leaked. One was at a house in the basement, but the other two were upper floor apartments where I only learned of the failures in the early morning with the downstairs neighbors knocking at my door.
One washing machine failure, where the mechanism to stop adding water failed. Again, only learned of this when the downstairs neighbors and apartment management came knocking.
At least three leaks to the downstairs apartment due to faulty tubing to my refrigerator's ice-making machine, and it not being repaired correctly.
Another flooding of the downstairs apartment due to a clogged outside drain that was ostensibly my responsibility to keep clean, although it's extremely awkward to clean as a tenant unless you have a three-story ladder and a vacuum leaf sucker. I suspect most people in an apartment don't have these readably available in case of a heavy wind+rain storm.
Another flooding of the downstairs apartment (many years ago) was when I left the bathroom sink running full blast and then went to sleep. The little hole to prevent overflow helped some, but not completely... One of the downsides of being hearing impaired the way I am, is that without my hearing aids in I can't hear running water from more than a few feet away.
There was also a false positive when my most recent place thought that water was leaking down through my living room, which gave me a temporary panic. Between multiple phone calls and rushing home from work, it turned out the leak was affecting the floor above me and below me, but circumvented my apartment. As always they bring out the gigantic air dryers and I've never seen a hint of mold (beyond my shower, which I should clean more often...).
In all these cases the landlords silently and immediately took care of it.
Submitted September 08, 2015 at 06:06AM by GoldenShackles http://ift.tt/1QkZzJp self
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