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Know your position as a tenant when a fire, flood, storm or other disaster damages your rented home: whether rent is still due, who repairs what, what your landlord's and your own insurance cover, moving out or ending the lease, and getting your deposit back. Use when someone says 'our rented flat flooded, do I still pay rent', 'the landlord won't fix the storm damage', 'can I end my lease after the fire', or 'who pays for my damaged belongings'. Produces a first-week plan, a rights checklist to confirm locally, messages to the landlord, and a decision on staying or leaving.

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# Renting After Disaster Damage

When a disaster damages a rented home, tenants face questions at once: is rent still due if the flat is unliveable, who pays for repairs, who pays for their belongings, and can they leave. The answers depend on the lease and local law, but the same order of steps protects the tenant almost everywhere: make it safe, record everything, notify the landlord in writing, check both insurances, and decide on staying or leaving with the facts. This skill sets out that order and the questions to check locally.

> **Not quite this?** Use `repair-request-escalation` for ordinary repairs a landlord ignores, and `security-deposit-recovery` once you have moved out and want the deposit back.

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## What This Skill Produces

- A **first-week plan**: safety, recording damage, written notice to the landlord, insurance calls, a temporary place to stay
- A **rights checklist to confirm locally**: rent while the home is unliveable, the landlord's duty to repair, ending the lease, and the deposit
- **Who pays for what**: the building (usually the landlord's insurance) against belongings and temporary housing (usually the tenant's own contents or renter's insurance)
- **Messages** to the landlord: the damage notice, a repair and timeline request, and a rent or lease question
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