So this has been a real great day. I went to be about 5 this morning and everything was fine. At 10:45 I wake up to this gushing sound coming from my bathroom. I go in and there is water everywhere. I mean its fucking everywhere and streaming slowly out from the toilet. I turn off the water at the toilet and grab every towel in the house to start getting this shit up. Not 2 minutes later I see two of the maintenance guys in my building standing in my bedroom doorway staring at my naked ass like it was Monica Belucci. I yell at them to shut the door, throw on some shorts, and run out of my bedroom to find out what the fuck is going on. I find 6 people standing in my foyer, yelling that they've been banging on the door for 20 minutes trying to get in and that I've flooded the unit below me and the hallway in the building. They drilled my deadbolt to get in because the seem to have lost they key that I gave them when I moved in. The apartment building is structured like a hotel and I'm on the 2nd floor where I rent from a guy who lives in MN (don't know if his location would have any bearing on the law or not). The whole downstairs hallway and the unit below me got completely flooded as well. The first step, after kicking out everyone, was to call my rental insurance company and file a claim. Luckily, none of my actual property was damaged except for the depletion of my linen closet. Next, I call my landlord. Turns out the schmuck doesn't have homeowners insurance on this property since its an investment. He says to go ahead and get a plumber out and go from there. I call out the plumber and he tells me that my service line connecting from my water valve to my toilet sprung a leak and that's what caused my problem. I get a bill from him stating that and have kept the busted hose. I also have the bill from the new deadbolt that I was forced to buy. The property had out a flood cleanup company and they faxed authorization to my landlord to get my unit cleaned up. Now my place looks like a bomb went off in it and I've got 4 fans and a de-humidifier running to dry out the carpet and drywall so no mold forms. Now, the property is making up some cockamaime story about how I fell asleep with the shower running and flooded my tub. Don't ask, I have no idea where they came up with this shit. The maintenance guys never made it past my doorway before I got them to close the door and let me get dressed. Problem is, they're trying to stick it to my landlord now and I have a feeling that I'm going to get caught in the crossfire. Apparently, the condo and the unit owner downstairs are considering suing my landlord but a Florida state statute says that if it's a catastrophic defect (read: toilet supply line) each individual is only responsible for their own property i.e. the condo is responsible for the hallways, the people downstairs for their unit, etc.. So it seems that this is all going to rest on my word of a catastrophe vs. the condo boards made up story that I'm a terrorist and flood peoples apartments with overflowing bathtubs. This is a problem because they have a nasty habit of fucking renters with their big corporate dick. They even got one of the maintenence guys to work up a typed paragraph full of typos that corroborates the bullshit story. Management in the office is not being helpful and I'm a bit in the dark here. Any suggestions as to how I should proceed from here?
Woke up this morning and my house was flooded
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