Hello,
I live in a regulated apartment. In September there was a fire in the apartmen below. As a result of the fire one of the rooms in my 2-bedroom apartment is totally destroyed. There is no window in the room, TV broke, half of my cloth got destroyed. Basically right now, the room is unusable. The landlord promised to make repairs.
Now it is the middle of November (and it is getting cold without a window in the room)and nothing is done. I started to withhold rent because I think it is ridiculous. My landlord is telling me that he can do nothing before he receives money from his insurance. And it is my fault that I did not had a renter's insurance. I have several questions:
1) How fast should my landlord repaired the apartment?
2) Can I recover from my landlord for my property destroyed during this fire?
3) Since the air quality in the apartment became very poor, I had severe allergic reactions. Can I recover from my landlord for that?
Thank you in advance.
Elena