legal advice?
Hello mighty f-list --
I dropped off my iBook with the good folks at the Mac store today. Best case scenario is $300 fee to replace/fix the logic board. Worst case, the cost would escalate close to $1000, in which case I will opt to buy a new macbook.
My question to all of you is, do I have a right to seek compensation from my landlord? Since it was his leaky roof that rained all over my computer? The little bit of research I've done seems to indicate that tenant property damage is the responsibility of the tenant, but a lot of friends and family are telling me I should try to ask for him to repay.
Considering I'm generally a wimp when it comes to this sort of thing, I'd like to have my facts all straight before I call him.
I did speak to him yesterday (to tell him the roof was leaking AGAIN, but the roofers won't start fixing it till the rain stops, so that was't his fault, really) and I was going to bring up my dead computer to him, but I get the impression he's like that character from Angels in America, Roy Cohn with the 12 phone phonebank talking to 5 people at the same time. He did reassure me over and over and over again that as soon as it stops raining they're going to fix everything, which is fine, but then he had to get off the phone because the president was calling or something and he had to take the call so I couldn't have the conversation about my computer. bah.
What's the best way to approach this?? halp!
I dropped off my iBook with the good folks at the Mac store today. Best case scenario is $300 fee to replace/fix the logic board. Worst case, the cost would escalate close to $1000, in which case I will opt to buy a new macbook.
My question to all of you is, do I have a right to seek compensation from my landlord? Since it was his leaky roof that rained all over my computer? The little bit of research I've done seems to indicate that tenant property damage is the responsibility of the tenant, but a lot of friends and family are telling me I should try to ask for him to repay.
Considering I'm generally a wimp when it comes to this sort of thing, I'd like to have my facts all straight before I call him.
I did speak to him yesterday (to tell him the roof was leaking AGAIN, but the roofers won't start fixing it till the rain stops, so that was't his fault, really) and I was going to bring up my dead computer to him, but I get the impression he's like that character from Angels in America, Roy Cohn with the 12 phone phonebank talking to 5 people at the same time. He did reassure me over and over and over again that as soon as it stops raining they're going to fix everything, which is fine, but then he had to get off the phone because the president was calling or something and he had to take the call so I couldn't have the conversation about my computer. bah.
What's the best way to approach this?? halp!