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Originally Posted by Weitz
I wouldn't. If its 100% the other person's fault you either pay to get it fixed where I want or go through insurance. I'm not getting estimates.
My wife had her car hit a few years ago and was going to get 3 estimates and I stopped her and told her to go to X store get your estimate give them the option to pay or call insurance. Saved her a ton of a time and headache. You shouldn't be given a favor for inconveniencing someone else (not trying to be rude or mean here just sort of stating where I am coming from).
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Originally Posted by Firebot
I know you are looking this in your eyes, but take it from the other side, if your unit got flooded by no fault of your own, and caused from a tenant occupied condo. Do you think the owner of that condo should have a say whatsoever if your own flooded unit needs to be repaired?
To the board / property management company / insurance / affected condo owners, you are the party responsible. You do not get a say, as an owner you are subject to the condo bylaws, any appeal or discussion will be immediately rejected.
Restoration is extremely expensive, especially when it comes to water damage. I have dealt with it before. 5K bill for impacted units is fairly normal for water damage and actually on the lower end. Only takeaway is to take this as a lesson learned and do regular maintenance on your units to prevent this possibiity from happening again. Very likely your tenant plugged up the dishwasher or did something, but it will be hard to prove and harder to collect anything from the tenant.
The caveats of being a landlord and the risks that come from renting (speaking as being both a landlord and on a condo board with multiple stories of both).
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Hmm an interesting perspective. If this is really how it's looked at, I think the lesson learned here would be to up the insurance coverage. For a condo especially for so many unknowns 10k seems low given what's happened. My concern going forward is that there is no incentive for the condo to keep costs low/manageable for non-emergency repair work (the emergency work I understand).