contractors used my vacuum

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Hi, I have been an observer and never posted before. I am not sure if this is

the right place to post this or not, but some water damage contractors used my

vacuum in a major water damage/construction cleanup.

I live in an apartment that has flooded three times in three years, major

floods, two of them sprinkler floods, the most recent fire/sprinkler flood was a

few weeks ago and I was kicked out of my unit for two weeks while contractors

were in here replacing the ceiling in my kitchen, and when I returned, I

discovered to my horror that they used MY Sebo vacuum to clean up the mess, my

personal property.

They trashed the vacuum, it was all beat up, the handle/tube piece was on

backwards, caked with white dust from drywall or something, and there were

pieces of brown paper stuck in the brush part of it with more white dust all

over the bottom, the wheels are all beat up with more white stuff on them, and

the bag inside was overflowing with a three inch tear in it, spilling out it's

contents inside the vacuum, the filter was destroyed. It is obvious they used my

vacuum in the cleanup, they removed water damaged drywall and who knows what

else from my ceiling.

I called the contracters who claim they use subcontractors to do the work and

they can't say who actually used my vacuum or what they will do about it. They

are a franchise for a nationwide company, chosen by the people that own my

building to do restoration.

I have demanded they give me a new vacuum as a replacement, they were supposed

to come by today to look at my beat up vacuum and never came.

Any suggestions on what to do?

(Again, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this).