the old owners of my home neglected to get the the eves-troughs fixed (they were shitty landlords), it cost me about 10K for the replacement which will last 20+yrs. the leaking water ruined every window frame in the house, and cost us about 50K to repair that damage. replacing those windows also like halved our heating/cooling bills (and made the upper floors comfortable to exist in). Luckily we got a nice interest free government loan because it’s greenifying our home.

they had all kinds of other landlord specials, like pouring concrete (not levelled right) down the basement drain and making the stairs to the attic out of plywood. fuck landlords. Did I mention they made over 400k on the appreciation of the house and were probably making 2-3K more per month than their mortgage from renting.

Her name was Jessica.

hurricane. home became homen’t

Shortly after we moved in, someone was taking a shower in our second-floor bathroom, the bottom of the shower cracked, and they didn’t notice. End result was an entire shower’s worth of water draining out the bottom of the shower, flowing about 10 feet inside the first-floor ceiling, draining down through the hole from a light fixture, across the kitchen floor, down through the kitchen floor into the basement ceiling, soaking into a bunch of exposed insulation, and making that insulation collapse onto the (concrete) basement floor.

60 year old house. They used to use this stuff called “no corrode” pipe for sewage. It was made of tar and straw and had around a 60 year service life. Mine finally collapsed, backed up and caused $30k of damage to my basement + 25k cost to dig up my back yard to replace it.

My sister burned her apartment down by leaving a portable battery bank plugged in and charging. Luckily the reason she wasn’t home at the time of the fire was because she was bringing the cat to a cat sitter, or else the cat would’ve been cooked too.

Be careful with portable battery banks folks! Don’t leave them unattended!

Getting cats. Well, not the home itself, but everything in it.

My nephew (it was my own damn fault for leaving the equipment set up because I was halfway done with a project) siphoned 55 gallons of water from an aquarium I was building into the carpet.

And that’s the story of how I learned to do flooring and replaced the carpet in my home office with linoleum so that the next time something like that happens it’s non issue.

Not my current house but previous one. 15 days before we gave over possession, there must have been a loud bang or something that scared the dog about 15 minutes before I woke up, he climbed onto the toilet and turned on the bidet and flooded the lower floor.

That was damn expensive to fix properly for the next people.

My husbands affair! Hahaha…ahhh…

The ceiling caving over the dining room was pretty bad. Right below my childhood bedroom too, so I had nightmares for a while.

Nothing too wild happened at my current place besides a pipe leaking while I was away for work. Landlord fixed the pipe but didn’t clean up the water. Came home after a month to the saddest kitchen you ever saw

Frozen pipe burst over my bedroom as a kid. I don’t even know how much it cost to repair and to replace everything that was ruined.