Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Illinois

Re: Rental Property rights

Depends what caused the flood. Generally speaking, building owners are not liable for acts of God - meaning they are not liable if there is a whole bunch of rain and the apartment floods. You can check your lease to see if there language to that effect written out explicitly.

On occasion, you can get a building owner for somehow being negligent in dealing with the flood. For example, if you called to say there was flooding and the owner did not promptly call whatever flood control services are available.

As for the repair workers, you may have a case, but you should also make a claim against the workers themselves. Again, it depends on the terms of your lease, the relationship of the owner to the workers and the specific facts of your case.

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