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    Default Can a Landlord Be Held Responsible for Continuous Leaks from the Ceiling

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: California

    So over the course of a little over 2 years and a half, me and my roommate have experienced several leaks, both from the ceiling and the walls. And just recently, as in earlier today, a small leak appeared right above my desk and directly hitting my ps4. After drying it off and removing it from under the leak that is still going, though only in droplets, I've tried turning it on after waiting several hours for it to dry, but it won't turn on. What I'm wondering now is can this new leak along with several complaints of past ones be used to hold the landlord liable for the damage? Or maybe even hold the tenants upstairs liable? Me and my roommate have experienced plenty of leaks in such a short span of time, even ones that flooded our living room and remained flooded for several days.with this new leak, and my now dead ps4, me and my roommates have now decided to look for a new place. But with that, I won't have the money to buy another ps4. Please help and respond a soon as possible. I'm really hoping for good news here.

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    Default Re: Can a Landlord Be Held Responsible for Continuous Leaks from the Ceiling

    If the landlord fixes leaks once they are reported, that's usually sufficient to satisfy the landlord's duty.

    If the leaks are not being fixed properly, then that may be an issue.

    If the leaks are from the upstairs neighbor overflowing a sink, toilet or shower, that's not something the landlord can prevent, nor is it something that the landlord can address until the problem is brought to the landlord's attention.

    If you want to discuss the landlord's potential liability for any given leak, you will need to tell us about the specific leak and why it occurred.

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    Default Re: Can a Landlord Be Held Responsible for Continuous Leaks from the Ceiling

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    If the landlord fixes leaks once they are reported, that's usually sufficient to satisfy the landlord's duty.

    If the leaks are not being fixed properly, then that may be an issue.

    If the leaks are from the upstairs neighbor overflowing a sink, toilet or shower, that's not something the landlord can prevent, nor is it something that the landlord can address until the problem is brought to the landlord's attention.

    If you want to discuss the landlord's potential liability for any given leak, you will need to tell us about the specific leak and why it occurred.
    The previous leaks were, in fact, not being fixed properly. What would happen is that the property's maintenance guy would come a day or two after the leak was reported and "fix" it. It would stop leaking, but only temporarily, at which point, hed come back and "fix" it again. The leaks, excluding the recent one, kept coming out of the same places. Until eventually, the land lord had to hire a professional team to break through the ground and walls to replace the pipes all together, this was after having to wait several days with our living room almost completely flooded. After that, not many leaks occurred until this recent one, which apparently came from an old sprinkler system that wasn't being. The property's maintenance guy had to open up the ceiling and pointed out the burst pipe that he said shouldn't have had water running through it.

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