Water damage in my unit
I rent a basement, which flooded over the weekend due to pipe burst in the foyer ceiling resulting in 8-10 inches of water in the unit. Since i wasn’t home, i didnt know about it until an hour or maybe 2 hours into it.
I have tenants insurance but they are getting 3rd party claims company to work with me which is extremely hard to get ahold of, not sure if they will be sending an adjuster to look in person but they asked to send all the photos of the damaged property.
Now the landlord’s insurance hopped on it real quick and started doing restoration. The kitchen cabinets, flooring, walls, insulation, baseboards all that would be done now over 6-8 weeks.
I have remaining 4 months left on my lease. Since i need to move all my belongings (& cant discard them due to insurance asking me to keep them for now), I would need to move my personal belongings to a storage unit.
Its an active construction unit with initially 8 fans and 2 dehumidifier placed everywhere. Now, Walls ripped out, baseboards taken out.
My landlord gave me an offer to pay 1 more month to get off the lease. Now, I cant understand why i would need to pay since I am doing emergency evacuation and why isnt this cause enough to terminate the lease due to
-Breach of Peaceful Enjoyment
-physical state of the unit makes the original contract impossible to fulfill.
+ I am having to pay deductible as well on the damages.
+ he declined rent rebate
Moreover, my current roommate had given me a notice last month and I had found another roommate, who i had to inform about the mishaps so I am left alone to pay the full rent amount.
Sadly, I have my tickets booked to leave the province for 2 months, so i pitched an offer to my landlord to pardon my rent until restoration is happening and when the work is done, to inform me so i can come back, which he declined saying that It wont take 2 months and flooring should take only a day.
Now, if there is anyone educated on this issue, please advise