Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Maryland
Rental Condo damage
I have a rental condominium. I have a real estate manager who manages the condominium. Our rentee left the faucet water open and the apartments below got flooded. The damage has not been estimated yet but maybe a couple of thousand. Also, it turns out that our apartment was being sub leased. My rental insurance company says that I would have to file a claim first with the rental condominium and then if there is a deductible, I can claim from my rental insurance company. So my questions are: 1. What should be my next step - Should I contact the condo insurance and let them know. 2. What should I do about the original renter 3. What should I do with the new renter that the condo was subleased to 4. Who is responsible for the damages to the neighbour condos 5. Also should I go to the rental property and take charge or leave it to my management company. 6. What are the legal ramfications of this.
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Re: Rental Condo damage
If this is the sort of matter your management agreement calls for them to handle, let them take care of it.
Otherwise, you can file a claim with the condo's rental property, but given the cause of the damage I doubt they'll take responsibility. So you'll be left to deal with your own carrier, assuming you are covered for this.
As for your lease situation, the sublease was probably a lease violation since most leases provide the property can't be subleased without the landlord's approval. Unless you want to keep this subtenant, I suggest you give them and the prime tenant an eviction notice, given the demonstration of irresponsibility.
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