I hope this is the right sub! I moved into a new rental house on February 7th. The landlord said that he keeps the water bill in his name and provides up bills to pay him, he then pays the water company. We gave him a $300 water deposit ahead of moving in (in addition to our security deposit). Yesterday, February 26, we come home from work to find a note from the utility and our water shut off. We call the landlord immediately and he is super apologetic and gets us buckets of tap water to use to flush the toilet. My husband, myself, and my infant daughter got ready and off to work/daycare with no running water. Landlord called the utility and they said it will be back on within 24 hours meaning I don't know if there will be running water when I get home or not. My landlord has not offered or brought up a discount AT ALL! Only apologizing over and over again. Is it fair for me to push for a month's free water? I know it was only one day but I had dirty dished, I couldn't cook dinner, couldn't shower or bathe my child for work. Even washing my hands was a pain in the ass.
TL;DR: Water got shut off for a day (maybe 2 days) because landlord didn't pay bill. What kind of discount/reimbursement should I request?
EDIT/UPDATE: Thank you everyone for the feedback! My take away is that, yes, a month's free water is way too much to ask (darn!). My intention is to ask for the days without water removed from the rent bill. I pay $2300 in rent so accounting for 28 days in the month, that would $82 for each day (or I could calculate 30 days). I want to add- I am on great terms with my landlord and will always strive to be a good tenant. Even though I am upset (because I had a sink full of dishes and a washer full of baby clothes, and I can now smell myself at my desk due to no shower, I'm a pumping mom so my pump stuff smelled like sour milk this morning and I had to wash it in the office sink), I wouldn't express this to him that way - always professional & kind. We plan to live in this home for 3-5 years so I don't want to negatively impact that in any way.
2ND EDIT: I should add that $82 or $164 (will find out when I get home tonight) will be at least equal to or greater than one month water bill, ha!
Submitted February 27, 2018 at 03:22PM by lanina619 http://ift.tt/2EWGVfu
