What's crazy to me reading this is not that someone left the bath running. It happens, all the time. It's why you carry insurance. And yes, if you rent out your

What's crazy to me reading this is not that someone left the bath running. It happens, all the time. It's why you carry insurance. And yes, if you rent out your house to 3 different people at once, the odds of this happening is dramatically increased. Typical leases provide for the owner to enter the premises in an emergency. Clauses for valid trespass I'm sure are quite different when you are sharing just a room of a house. But typically the rule is 24 hours notice, exigent circumstances prevail. Here's where things get fuzzy. The owner terribly violated the renters privacy. Taking pictures of her bed, of her personal items, of used Kleenex and condoms holy shit, that is terribly wrong. Oh yeah, then they were posted on the Internet. That is a huge lawsuit right there. A flood, however, is certainly exigent circumstances. Owner probably has a right to enter the room to assess safety and make emergency repairs. Owner does not have any right to rifle through personal items and post pictures of it all online. Now, most leases have clauses disallowing illegal behavior or running a business out of the space, legal or otherwise. In that case the owner can move to evict the tenant. But they cannot break into their room and post pictures of it online. And since it appears she kicked her tenant out, I assume the rental fee will be refunded. The real point of all this is that accidents happen, and bathtubs flood. Owner did the right thing by calling a professional cleanup crew, although I would call the insurance company first. If there is no insurance policy for the owner, good god that is going to be very expensive, and I'm really sorry it happened. But shit happens, and flooding a bathtub by accident is not illegal. Hell, it may not be even cause for eviction in some jurisdictions. What I don't get is, where is the woman while the owner is breaking into her room? Did she flee, or was she kicked out? If that happened to me I would be on the scene doing everything possible to help minimize the damage and get things away from the water. Maybe the picture was taken days later, but how could she have left all her stuff like that? I'm confused about this point.