Oh as a followup, you can also use some of these learnings to help you deal with your next water damage caused by someone else, if they aren’t cooperating with you…
For example, that owner that caused water damage to my unit below had another plumbing leak 7 months later. It wasn’t a big deal, but I wanted to use my guys to handle the leak and everything… He again, wanted to be cheap and find his unlicensed plumber, unlicensed handyman, to repair his plumbing and patch my walls and ceiling…
I said hell no. Even though it’s your plumbing, those pipes run aobve me. I insisted him using a licensed/bonded plumber just so if the work was shoddy and it leaked again, there was some accountability…. or use my guy who is licensed/bonded who is cheaper than average. The guy tried to weasle his way out again by going the cheapest route again….
This is where I dropped the hammer and said.. Ok fine, if you aren’t going to do the repairs they way I want, I want your insurance so I can run everything through your insurance company again……Oh by the way, since this is your second claim within a few months, your insurance carrier might end up dropping you and you might have a lot of trouble getting re-insured with TWO water loss claims on the same property in less than a year…If you don’t believe me, you can call your insurance to see how they handle more than one water loss claim on the same property within the same year…..
The owner called back and said, just send me the bill of whomever you want to use, and I’ll Venmo you back…. He never gave me problems again….
