what to do about my landlord?

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we rent an apartment and the basement keeps flooding whenever it rains. We have a sump pump down there that'll take care of a foot and a half of standing water in half an hour which is good but after 10 or so hours of continual pumping, it'll shut itself off.

Last week, we had 16 inches if standing water down there, almost up to the electrical thing to the furnace.

Our landlord refuses to do anything about it. In fact, he suggests not keeping anything down there that could be destroyed. I suppose he meand the furnace and the oil tank.

We specifically got the high-efficiency washers per his request. We could have gotten one of those top loaders. My C57-D saucer is ruined...

Just wondering if any of you guys know what do to. We'll be moving into our own house by the spring (hopefully) but in the meantime, can we withhold rent, call the city, have the place condemned?

here's a video. It's not as bad as it has been but the fact remains there is water in the basement and it'll keep coming in and that's our electricity the sump pump runs on so whenever it rains, our bill goes up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItq5pbFNks

thanks for reading.

easy...call the health dept about him.
Check out the renter's rights in your state...each state has different laws about how to deal with a landlord who wont hold up his end of the deal.

yep you have renters rights and having a flooded basement fixed or prevented is definately one of them no matter what state you are in. my state just got hit with a huge rainstorm and a buddy of mine is having a similar problem....but his landlord took care of all the damage.