Q: Can my apartment complex not do needed repairs which affect my apartment?
6 yrs ago, my upstairs neighbors' kitchen sink , garbage disposal and dishwasher water kept coming up in my sink and finally flooded my apartment. They fixed it then but its doing it again now. The complex changed hands and I have been asking and even begged them a couple times since January 2021 for them to fix it. There is a rank smell from it as well. Is there any way to make them do repairs this time? They took the access cap off the pipe in January. The waste water and ground up food was pouring outside along my apartment and seeping inside. It is now mid June. I finally sent a certified letter requesting it and all they have done is have the carpet scrubbed where the waste water entered my living room via weep holes. How can I get them to fix this? I am 67 yrs old and have multiple health issues. Their maintenance man used a household snake on it, proclaimed it fixed and put the cap back on. Now it is coming up into my sink again and they will not respond to requests.
A: Contact the renters' council in Temple. If there is none, try the Travis County Renters' Council.
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