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You don't understand the situation. The first time the toilet overflowed, he offered to clean it up but I volunteered to do it with a wet dry vacuum. He agreed to it. The second time the toilet overflowed, I asked him to do it and he told me that he wasn't feeling well and he told me to do...

I first need to verify if the apartment is actually condemned and, if so, verify the reason it is condemned.

I don't see why that would necessarily be the case. If it can be established that there is a certain procedure to properly remediating the water damage (i.e. professional cleaning), and if the landlord was aware that all I did was merely clean up the carpet with a vacuum, then shouldn't that be...

Why wouldn't he be responsible for my personal belongings when it was his fault that my belongings are damaged in the first place? I could understand if my belongings were damaged by hidden or unforeseeable mold, but this mold occurred specifically because of his negligence in doing repairs...

I assumed renter's insurance was for something like burglaries or some other disaster that is not the landlord's fault. If the damage to my belongings was my landlord's fault, why shouldn't he have to pay for it? The second time I DID ask him to do the cleaning, and he refused. He said he...

At the time of the incident, I thought that cleaning up the water with a vacuum was sufficient. It was only months after I moved out that I learned that a professional cleaning job was necessary.

I said in the post that after the second toilet overflow, I did ask him to clean up the carpet and he essentially refused and expected me to do it. Any time there is a flooding like this it demands a professional cleanup job, not just a tenant using his vacuum cleaner. The landlord should have...

At the time, I thought that simply cleaning up the water with a wet/dry vacuum was sufficient and did not learn until after I moved out that there was a much more thorough cleaning process that must be performed in such a situation. But as the tenant, I don't think it should have been my...

You are right. I was foolish to stay in the apartment. However, the fact remains that I paid my landlord rent in full on time every single month, and therefore I feel he had a legal responsibility to do the necessary cleanup job on my carpet.

Are you saying that the statute of limitations for my case has expired?

This was my first time renting an apartment. It was my belief that it was the landlord's responsibility to ensure that my apartment was sanitary and safe to live in. Especially since the toilet overflowing was not my fault, I would think it was his responsibility to clean up whatever mess the...

I moved into an apartment in August of 2013. In July of 2014, I had a bad problem with my plumbing in the apartment. My toilet began to overflow large amounts of water. The toilet did this all by itself without me having to flush. There was so much water that it flooded nearly half of the...