My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Florida
So my ORIGINAL landlord decided three days before lease signing that he was going to raise the rent $125. We didn't feel like the place was worth that and were uncomfortable at the ridiculously short notice so we decided to pack and move as quickly as possible. He gave us free time to get us out and that was fine.
We find a new place in an up and coming area and in a record number of days and a huge amount of stress pack and move everything.
Three days later I wake up to the whole front of house (Addition Room, Kitchen, Living room) covered in about a 1/4 inch sheet of water. In the walkthrough I noted that the door in the back was unsealed (I can put my fingers into the house) and they called it in. I didn't think it could have been from that since the door is elevated though.
So the Managers call a window guy (Water all over the window (new double paned)) a roof guy (water weeping at roof/wall joint and ceiling), and a door guy for the door seal.
This was on July 30th (the rain and the call). A few days later the window guy shows up and says "its not the window it's the roof" and leaves. The roof guy comes and puts a little bit of caulk in some places and leaves. It rains again while we are out and we come back to a wet house. It is August 19th and the door guy has yet to show in all of this.
It finally rains when we are home and we see the water is actually coming in from under the baseboard/moulding (and suprise, from the roof again, new leak spots). So now they call their construction guy and the roof guy back. This was two weeks ago.
Construction guy calls me and says that "Well the problem is that the neighboring house has dumped all of this stuff against the fence causing it to flood, we're going to get them to move it." More rain, more flooding. We're fighting it with towels etc.
I go out myself to trench etc.
I'm smart enough to know that its a mass of tree roots from two giant oak stumps at corners of the house and the root system that will have to be cut out to lower the grade enough to allow water to drain.
I call angry at some point and they are trying to get their lawyer to find the neighbor owner but its a company so they're doing a trace etc etc.... the problem wasn't really caused by the neighbor construction though...it is very obviously stuff that has been there for a long time...but whatever.
Some guys come out with a backhoe the other day (yesterday?) and can't get into the tiny area at all. Their chainsaw doesnt work... they'll come back.
Basically we are three weeks on "every time it rains a sheet of water crosses the entire house unless we are there to stop it" and it started when we were four days in.
...What is an appropriate ask here? Should we cut and run? If we do demand it all back? We can't unpack, we cant use half the house. The water heater and dryer were improperly wired causing me to get shocked trying to install the dryer earlier than planned to get towels dry to stop their rain (Half the water heater leg was powering the dryer regardless of dryer breaker position, water heater half unpowered) Tomorrow will be three weeks of this problem and the only abatement of it is stuff I did myself...digging in pouring rain trying to redirect water.
No one has called me or updated me all week on what is supposed to happen and the office was closed yesterday for a party so I couldn't call in when I was free. ugh.
Also all these shiny new three-slot and gfci outlets are completely ungrounded but that's another story.
So my ORIGINAL landlord decided three days before lease signing that he was going to raise the rent $125. We didn't feel like the place was worth that and were uncomfortable at the ridiculously short notice so we decided to pack and move as quickly as possible. He gave us free time to get us out and that was fine.
We find a new place in an up and coming area and in a record number of days and a huge amount of stress pack and move everything.
Three days later I wake up to the whole front of house (Addition Room, Kitchen, Living room) covered in about a 1/4 inch sheet of water. In the walkthrough I noted that the door in the back was unsealed (I can put my fingers into the house) and they called it in. I didn't think it could have been from that since the door is elevated though.
So the Managers call a window guy (Water all over the window (new double paned)) a roof guy (water weeping at roof/wall joint and ceiling), and a door guy for the door seal.
This was on July 30th (the rain and the call). A few days later the window guy shows up and says "its not the window it's the roof" and leaves. The roof guy comes and puts a little bit of caulk in some places and leaves. It rains again while we are out and we come back to a wet house. It is August 19th and the door guy has yet to show in all of this.
It finally rains when we are home and we see the water is actually coming in from under the baseboard/moulding (and suprise, from the roof again, new leak spots). So now they call their construction guy and the roof guy back. This was two weeks ago.
Construction guy calls me and says that "Well the problem is that the neighboring house has dumped all of this stuff against the fence causing it to flood, we're going to get them to move it." More rain, more flooding. We're fighting it with towels etc.
I go out myself to trench etc.
I'm smart enough to know that its a mass of tree roots from two giant oak stumps at corners of the house and the root system that will have to be cut out to lower the grade enough to allow water to drain.
I call angry at some point and they are trying to get their lawyer to find the neighbor owner but its a company so they're doing a trace etc etc.... the problem wasn't really caused by the neighbor construction though...it is very obviously stuff that has been there for a long time...but whatever.
Some guys come out with a backhoe the other day (yesterday?) and can't get into the tiny area at all. Their chainsaw doesnt work... they'll come back.
Basically we are three weeks on "every time it rains a sheet of water crosses the entire house unless we are there to stop it" and it started when we were four days in.
...What is an appropriate ask here? Should we cut and run? If we do demand it all back? We can't unpack, we cant use half the house. The water heater and dryer were improperly wired causing me to get shocked trying to install the dryer earlier than planned to get towels dry to stop their rain (Half the water heater leg was powering the dryer regardless of dryer breaker position, water heater half unpowered) Tomorrow will be three weeks of this problem and the only abatement of it is stuff I did myself...digging in pouring rain trying to redirect water.
No one has called me or updated me all week on what is supposed to happen and the office was closed yesterday for a party so I couldn't call in when I was free. ugh.
Also all these shiny new three-slot and gfci outlets are completely ungrounded but that's another story.
Repair and Maintenance: Foundation Flooding
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