Excitement in the Village last night! I got a call around 5:30pm last night from the guy who owns the unit below mine. Seems his tenant called to say there was water leaking from above her unit. I went home and saw water coming from above my unit. The guy who lives upstairs wasn't home, but fortunately, I had the landlord's number from the whole roof collapse/basement wall disaster and called them. They came over and couldn't open the door. We ended up breaking into the unit to find the guy's toilet tank had been leaking (from a hairline fracture in the porcelain or something) and he had been catching water in a bucket. But it had overflowed and was an inch deep on the bathroom floor.

The water in my unit was dripping at a steady rate in several locations from the laundry area ceiling A/C, the bathroom light fixture (down into my medicine cabinet), bathroom wall from the air vent, and bathroom door frame. I had a 20 gallon Rubbermaid bin, 2 plastic trash cans and a large plastic bowl catching water. By the time we turned off the water upstairs my Rubbermaid bin was 3-4 inches deep with water.

I just don't understand why he didn't call his landlord to come fix the toilet. As an owner you might not have the cash handy, but you'd want to fix it before you became liable for damage to other units. But as a tenant there was no reason he couldn't call his landlords to fix it.

Oh well. At least we caught the problem relatively early and my strategic placing of containers to catch water helped. My floor was mostly dry by the time I left last night. It could have been much worse if I had carpet, had been out of town or we hadn't been able to break into the upstairs unit.