Is this enough reason to break a lease?
First of all, apologies on how lengthy it is, but it's probably worth the read. I'm currently living in filth and have been for 18 hours, after a 3 hour emergency maintenance call.
So, last night I come home from my second job and go into the bathroom to do my business, when the toilet starts gurgling and I look in the tub and it's full of backed up water and dirt. I yell at my SO to stop doing dishes and come look. As soon as he stopped, the toilet stopped gurgling and the tub stopped backing up. We called for emergency maintenance because we were afraid it would flood, and we didn't flush the toilet for the same reason.
About five minutes pass and the guy comes. He tried snaking the toilet and nothing happens except the bath tub filling up a little. So he goes out to get a shopvac so he can flush the toilet without causing overflow. As soon as he did this, it all went downhill. He took the toilet completely off to snake the drain and as this was happening, we started flooding with sewage and he literally looked at my SO and said "start moving your shit" because he couldn't make it stop flooding. It started moving into the hallway and thankfully that's as far as it got, but now our carpet has had sewage there.
He reinstalled everything and gave us a blower to dry out the carpet overnight. So we started cleaning last night, and we were up until 2 am doing this. We didn't shower out of fear of another back up that we couldn't stop, and when we got up today, the toilet had no water again, which is how this started yesterday. After I get to work, my SO calls and says it's happening again. 12 hours after the first time.
So the process started again. 2 times in less than 24 hours because someone's a moron and flushed baby wipes, and we ended up with the problem because we're on the ground floor.
The office wasn't going to cover a carpet cleaning after it went into the hallway and was tracked all over from the guy needing to get multiple tools after starting and to dump the water from the shopvac. They're not even coming out until a week from now.
Our apartment is unsanitary now and neither of us are comfortable showering or anything now, and we had to buy supplies to clean up the mess. To make it worse, the neighbor across the hall had a pipe burst under ground about a month ago.
Is this enough to break the lease with our current apartment number and request to be relocated? If it happens a third time I'm absolutely requesting relocation, there's no reason that we should have to be forced to live in filth and pay for the electricity that was used to deal with this shit two days in a row. It's unsanitary.
TLDR: my neighbors are idiots and flushed baby wipes and my bathroom backed up in sewage from it. Twice. I want to move to a different apartment because of it, and because they're thinking of making us pay for the carpet cleaning. Can I request to be relocated and break my current lease with my current apartment number?
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