Who Pays After Pipe Bursts
If a pipe bursts in a rental apartment, who pays for damage to furniture, rugs, etc.? The tenant is uninsured and the landlord is NYCHA.
If a pipe bursts in a rental apartment, who pays for damage to furniture, rugs, etc.? The tenant is uninsured and the landlord is NYCHA.
In my experience, this forum is a poor source of info on tenants rights. Take a look at http://tenant.net/ for better legal resources for Tenants.
Cuz the answer is: it depends. Sometimes you can demonstrate that a landlord was willfully negligent and should be held responsible for damage. Sometimes you can’t. Sometimes they weren’t.
Unless, you have tenant’s insurance I’m afraid that you may be out of luck, as the others have said…
Depends on why the pipe burst.
In a large apartment building such as NYCHA typically offers, I can’t imagine many situations where a tenant would have the kind of access to create a situation that results in a burst pipe.
If you didn’t cause the burst pipe (by hooking up a washing machine to your water line by yourself or otherwise messing with your plumbing)and you feel that NYCHA isn’t being responsive to your claim, I am sure that there are resources for getting a lawyer to work with you. I would call 311 and ask.
tenant is probably the one that is responsible. that’s why they have renter’s insurance.
Don’t know about NYCHA, but I do know that when something similar happened to me and my tenant a few years ago, my house insurance, which did pay for repairs to floor and ceiling, would not cover damage to tenant’s belongings. I paid to have his rugs cleaned, but wasn’t legally obligated to (great tenant). I now advise new tenants to get insurance for their household goods — renter’s insurance. It’s very cheap.
Short of actual evidence that the tenant caused the pipe to break, the landlord is responsible. Isn’t there some provision for damage claims against the City on NYCHA website?