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As much as it stinks I highly doubt the landlord would be responsible for the food in the freezer. If you were in a rental and it flooded your landlord would be responsible for fixing the damage to your stucture, but not the contents (you would need renters insurance for that), so I would assume it would be a similar idea.

Our refrigerator died in college over spring break and the landlord spontaneously gave us $200 ($100 each) for the lost food (mostly in the freezer because we were gone for most of the break). It was a nice surprise from an exceptionally wonderful landlord. I would be surprised if this is standard practice, but we were good tenants and I think he wanted to keep us happy.

Do you have renter's insurance? That might cover it! Or if you reported the dying fridge and they dragged their feet on replacing it, you might be able to convince them to deduct the cost of the lost food off your next month's rent!

Our landlord took a little off the rent for the month when that happened to us.

@winniebee: oh no! that's one of my biggest fears for this hurricane season is loosing all of my frozen milk due to power being out.

With renters insurance you want to make sure the deductible is reasonable before filling out a claim or else it's not worth it. At least in my opinion.

This happened to us a bunch of times. The fridge broke. Landlord "fixed it". Broke again a few months later. Bought us a "refurbished" fridge. Broke again a month later. Bought us a new fridge. We were not able to salvage our food 2x and the last time, we caught it early so we transferred over our freezer things to our deep freezer. But almost everything in our fridge was lost. By the 2nd time, I asked for $200 off our rent to cover the loss of our foods since his fix didn't work and neither did the refurbished model. So we got $200 + another $200 off our rent. The first time it happened, we understood that things happen so we just ate the cost.