(comment) Kitchen flooded into basement below. Landlord doesn't have someone coming for several days. How do we mitigate damage?
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[Parent post: "Kitchen flooded into basement below. Landlord doesn't have someone coming for several days. How do we mitigate damage?"] EDIT: thank you so much everyone for all of your helpful advice! I am a bit stressed and struggling to respond to everything but I appreciate it a ton, thank you His brother in law installed our dishwasher. It managed to flood the entire kitchen (second floor) while we were out last night, and there's a large chunk of the ceiling in the garage that's split and sagging (ground floor) and it poured --- That’s great if you have another place to go to, lots of people are in places where they don’t have family or friends close enough that they can go and stay with them indefinitely, and especially on no notice. Hotels or short term rentals are expensive. They need to check what their rights are based on whatever tenants act is in place for where they live and figure out what accommodations they are entitled to and notify the landlord of the landlord’s obligations and also remind the landlord that the longer they wait to address this, the more severe the damage becomes to the home they own. Also the more likely it will be that there are issues with the insurance claim if the insurance company finds out that the landlord waited days before making any attempt at mitigating damage from large leak like this. Whatever they end up doing they need to document why they did it and keep receipts because there is a good chance they can get it reimbursed by the landlord. If the landlord thinks they can get away with waiting days to resolve this without providing an alternative unit or hotel reservation for the tenants to stay in while it’s resolved… I would say it’s a safe bet you are going to be going to small claims court or housing court to figure out things like who pays for your incurred costs of having to move everything and stay elsewhere and also it’s probably going to be an issue getting your security deposit back because an unprofessional
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The commenter does not show any intent to buy or research replacement windows.
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The comment primarily discusses tenant rights and landlord obligations in the context of a flooding issue, with no mention of windows or home improvement. The focus is on legal and logistical advice rather than any indication of interest in replacement windows.
Model: gpt-4o-mini · Prompt: v2 · 5/15/2026, 9:01:54 AM