Renting, the parent of this diary, describes what happened when I experienced the perfect plumbing storm in the house I rent(ed) for some seventeen years. It was both home and workspace, but has been neither for six or seven weeks. No home, no work, no income...
During that time, I was late with my rent exactly once, by three days, and called ahead to let the landlord know. I had been an ideal tenant...maintained the house and grounds for the cost of materials only, good neighbor, the works.
On October 6th of this year, the house flooded with water...both clear water and waste water, and when I notified the landlord, I was told nothing would be done for a week, and in fact, nothing was done by the landlord for a week. I tried to mitigate the problem myself, but moved out when I began to get sick from exposure to the waste water. I did my best to take the high road, and tried to work with the landlord to get the situation put right. I did not go to the county authorities to complain and/or report the off-permit structures involved. I lost about half of my possessions to water damage.