Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

First, Judge's don't settle cases. They decide cases based upon current law, the pleadings and evidence in a case. You can sue whomever you want, but the issue is will you win. In a situation like this, I won't give you any odds of winning the underlying case, but I can tell you that on something like a failure to disclose information prior to renting a property, a property manager can be held liable if they had actual knowledge of the problem. The issue you have is that the property owner may have paid a water damage restoration company to fix the problem after the flood, and unless he and/or the property manager had knowledge of a continuing problem, then the flood itself might not be relevant. In other words, I don't have to disclose water damage to an apartment to a prospective tenant if, to the best of my knowledge, a professional actually remediated the problem. This is not necessarily a slam-dunk case. Sue both, and hope you can convince a judge that they knew not just about the flood (which is obvious) but that problems with mold continued after any repairs that were done.

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