so we have been in our apartment for less than a month and so far; the first night they towed our car. This morning I woke up at 4 am as normal, paid a few bills online, made coffee, went back to my desk............ and noticed I was squishing when I walked.......... what........ squishing, yes squishing.

I have been using our steam cleaner to suck up water all day, unbelievable.

What luck?

Do you think I should buy a lottery ticket or would I just be wasting my dollar LOL

Oh no Daniel. What caused the flooding?

It has been raining all day here and more is on its way I think. they should never have rented us the apartment and they are suppose to move us to a second floor apartment tomorrow. I told them they are moving all our stuff, I am not touching a thing, I am tired and to old to move all this stuff again.

More & more now days people are very nervous about MOLD which is caused by dampness.

Are then walls wet/ stained & are they drywall?

Wow, that wasn't even part of Ike which is also coming your way. Up to 3" forecast.

JD, I'm pretty sure that the walls are drywall, they did get someone in here to suck up most of the water late last night, and they are suppose to move us to a second floor apartment in another building.

Augie, I thought I heard something about more rain, and apparently so did the managers here, because they didn't approve for the restoration people to leave the extra drying equipment e.g. de-humidifier, fans

Well they did a partial turn-around about moving us to another apartment, in that we are getting the 2nd floor apartment, but we have to move ourselves. (they don't want to take liability for our furniture if it would get damaged in the move.)

The manager Chris is also denying that the building was flooded before on the first floor, even though the foyer, and hallway carpet show signs of water damage. The man that was apparently the supervisor of the cleanup crew also said he had been to the building in the past to do a cleanup

i would then argue for them to pay an insured mover to move your stuff. I would not move it, it's their fault the building is leaking.

if there are some inconspicuous places on the first floor I would be tempted to go buy a mold kit and hide them and see what happens. sounds like the kind of people that would just vacuum the water up and call it done. wet sheetrock and wood breed mold which will make you sick.

One place to take a look is by removing the wood base board & see if there is any mold growth there, if there is don't disturb it, take a photo maybe & put it back on the wall.

From the many site inspections I've been on making sure the (restoration, repairs, etc.) work is none properly, we use a moisture meter (& inferred cameras IRC), most good Restoration Cos. will have that, the IRC's are rather expensive so not many have them.

NTS if moisture is found in the walls the bottom 2 feet of GWB is removed wherever its wet, then the drying equipment is run until its dry, then the repairs are started.

Mold is another thing completely, it can be very expensive for the owner(s) to have that remediated correctly, w/ the containment (w/ negative air) demo/disposal, cleaning, testing & clearance.

Apparently here in the great chicago area, the home inspection process is part of the corruption like everything else. We had our house inspected prior to buying it and the inspector didn't say anything about mold.
A couple months later we found signs of it having been covered up in the bathroom ceiling. We had to rip all the walls and ceiling out of the bathroom and the adjoining rooms, plus part of the exterior wall, and partialy replace the ceiling joists above those rooms to be safe. I did most of the work myself so it wasn't as expensive and it would have been for most.