Landlord Took My Roof Off With No Real Warning. Can We Sue?
Our landlord gave us about 12 hours notice that they were sending someone to work on the roof. No specification that we would need to prepare anything ahead of time. The next day an unsupervised crew showed up, didn't check to see the building had no sub-roof/ceiling over a large portion of the upstairs, and proceeded to tear the roof off and rain down debris from a 100year old building's roof tiles all over upstairs, completely coating all my personal belongings and bed. At several points mid-work the crew told us to tarp up, after already raining everything down, and at no point stopped working to give us time to actually tarp as it continued to rain down onto us, while we were inside. They left large holes open in the ceiling for three or four days, again with no warning to us, before patching them.
We currently don't know how toxic the roof tiles are, as nothing was tested beforehand. We plan on testing it ourself, as a cursory Google says there's a risk of asbestos since the building has been getting roof patch jobs since probably the 1920s. Question still stands regardless of results.
What legal recourse do we have for this? Can we sue or something? We live in California.
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