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pissandvinegar
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over the 4th of July weekend, I noticed as I parked my car that the garage gate of my building's parking garage was not closing behind me.
In the morning, we woke to find that 5 of the cars in our building had been burglarized, but even worse, the spare key which had been in my roommate's car (also broken into) to my car could not be found.
All day long, the gate remained open. I let my roommate use my car to go to work as his car was not working from having all his wires cut from the burglary. He returned at 5:40pm, the garage gate still not being closed. The manager called me to inform me that the gate was fixed at 7:30pm. When we went down to the garage, my car had been stolen.
What I want to know is, can I hold the building management liable for the burglary items (totalling upwards of $4500 total worth of stolen items from both our cars) as well as for negligence - not repairing the gate, essentially leaving the door open for the theives to come take my car?
I am really pissed off... please let me know if there is legal action I can take.
In the morning, we woke to find that 5 of the cars in our building had been burglarized, but even worse, the spare key which had been in my roommate's car (also broken into) to my car could not be found.
All day long, the gate remained open. I let my roommate use my car to go to work as his car was not working from having all his wires cut from the burglary. He returned at 5:40pm, the garage gate still not being closed. The manager called me to inform me that the gate was fixed at 7:30pm. When we went down to the garage, my car had been stolen.
What I want to know is, can I hold the building management liable for the burglary items (totalling upwards of $4500 total worth of stolen items from both our cars) as well as for negligence - not repairing the gate, essentially leaving the door open for the theives to come take my car?
I am really pissed off... please let me know if there is legal action I can take.