Landlord refuses to let me leave after flood, so I come up with a plan to force them to

pay me $5,000. Here's what happened. Subscribe to AMI The Jerk on YouTube and hit the bell

for notifications. I had just moved across the country for a job with my girlfriend,

and found a nice apartment in the suburbs. Building was nice, staff seemed fine,

everything seemed in order. After unloading all of our boxes and organizing clothes on the floor,

we decided to take a break and grab dinner. In the middle of our meal, I get a call from the

building saying we had a fire in our apartment. Later found out the sprinkler pipe burst and

triggered a fire alarm. I rushed back to find four to five inches of water and a massive hole in

the ceiling leaking water everywhere. All of my stuff was ruined, including all my clothes,

my piano, multiple computers, electronics, everything was gone. I did have renters insurance,

but found myself living out of a hotel until the repairs were made. Fast forward two weeks.

I'm still living out of a hotel after the building claimed they would have my place fixed

in a week. I go in to inspect the place and there's black mold all over the walls and

ceilings. Obviously not a livable space even after repairs. I'm communicating with the property

manager who keeps brushing me off and saying everything will be fine, it won't take much longer.

I mention breaking my lease and she snaps, claiming I have no grounds to do that and they'll

sue me if I do. So I work in digital marketing, in real estate actually. I have a follow-up meeting

with her boss in an hour and decide to do some research into their URL. Their website name is the

full name of the residence, which is pointlessly long. I find the dot net available for purchase,

as well as multiple iterations of shorter URLs which presumably have higher search volumes.

I spend about 50 bucks and buy them all up. Then I call a lawyer buddy and talk to him about how

to use language that will avoid sounding like extortion if I make them buy these back. I walk

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