I am not the Original Poster. Originally posted by u/ijustrk on r/legaladvice.

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Apartment roofers fell through roof 3 times now on 3 separate occasions (25 July 2017)

My apartment (built in the 70s) has been undergoing a reroof for the past month now. Over the past month they have fallen through our roof on 3 separate occasions:

June 26th- They crashed through our roof in the living room right above the couch. Luckily no one was home except our cats. The apartment never called to tell us, and apparently the roofer never told the apartment. When my wife and I got home from work we found the hole and several nails shot through the roof. We had to call the emergency line to have them come and fix it. Luckily none of our personal items were damaged.

July 7th- They were redoing the roof on our carport. We came out one morning around 8AM to our car completely tarped off and wrapped with caution tape. No damage was done to the car, but this cause a major inconvenience and we had no warning that they would be doing this.

July 18th- They crashed through again, this time in our kitchen. The apartment called us this time and luckily again, there was no damage to our personal belongings.

July 25th- Last week we had a note on our door letting us know they would be removing the AC from our roof to reinforce underneath and we would be without AC for the week. We came home from work to a note on our door saying they fell through again, in our bedroom this time. There were several nail holes again across the ceiling and a blue liquid dripped onto our bed. We have a blue stain of some sort of liquid on our sheets and our new mattress. The manager said he doesn't know what the liquid is or if it's toxic.

The manager doesn't seem to know much of what is going on. We've been here coming up on 3 years now and he is the third manager for our property. He said he is speaking with the property regional manager tomorrow and will let me know a plan. He doesn't seem to be worried about the blue liquid even though it has a fairly strong odor.

So a few questions, we would like to get out of our lease because we don't feel safe here anymore and do not appreciate how this whole thing has been handled. We tentatively have another place lined up (through a close friend). Would we have legal ground to break our lease without penalty? The agreement says the fee for breaking the lease is equal to 1 months rent and we must give 30 days.

What should we do about our mattress? We bought the mattress less than a year ago from Leesa and now it has a blue stain. Should we ask for them to replace it, maybe have it professionally cleaned?

Thank you r/legaladvice. This has been a super stressful experience and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Update 7/26 - Decided to go in late to work today to wait for the office to open at 9 and talk with the manager. They started the roof work just before 8. I'm lying in bed and all the sudden CRASH. They fell through again this time in my closet in the spare room. Debris and crap all over my clothes. They have now fallen through every room in our apartment. We have another place lined up and will be giving our 30 days notice. https://i.imgur.com/AKsMiVN.jpg

Update 2 - I received an update from the apartment management company and they are allowing us to break our lease! This is a huge relief because I really didn't want to start a legal battle. Now I'm nervously waiting to go home today to see how the repairs are coming along to the two newest holes and to give some much needed comfort to our cats. I am still going to pressure them into a mattress replacement and covering costs to dry clean my clothes and sheets. I'll keep you posted.

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Editor's note: OOP did not update on reimbursement but I am marking this as "concluded" as their original desire to move out and away from this nightmare was granted.

Reminder: I am not the Original Poster. Originally posted by u/ijustrk on r/legaladvice.