As if Amy's tales of the rat-infested apartment with the exploding bathroom weren't enough, along comes Chris Aucutt with more evidence that basement apartments should just be banned:

For the second time it got this bad, and the fifth time overall, the sewer lines in our apartment backed up to the point that it spilled out of the toilet. This is the second time water actually came out of the toilet, and it spilled out of the bathroom and onto our carpet - and this time we didn't know it was happening until the water had already covered about a third of the living room floor. ...