*sigh*
So, perspective home renters, for your own sanity: GET ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR HOUSE.
My bathroom? Apparently was hooked up to a sump pump to effectively pump the toilet stuff down into the main sewer line. No one told us about this configuration. And apparently the motor on that pump seized sometime in the last month or two. As a result, the box that contains that stuff overflowed....and it has now spread under the floor of the basement, to an extent unknown.
So now it's not just a simple "tear up the floor in my bathroom." Now it's "drill holes into the basement floor to figure out how far the corruption has spread." If it's spread far, it could be $20,000 worth of renovation to tear up the downstairs floor and replace it.
It looks like I'll be without a bathroom for a couple weeks, have to take multiple days off of work to supervise....oh, and the entirety of my house currently smells like raw sewage because after pulling the panelling off to expose all the plumbing and the pump and everything, it's gently wafting out to everywhere in the house.
So, again......renters, know this kind of stuff about your house. I'd actually been hearing the motor for the pump trying (and failing) to turn over for the last couple of weeks. I even said to my roommate "You think that buzzing sound has anything to do with it?" His answer was: Nah.
I'd feel bad for my landlord who is going to be eating a minimum of $2000 on this before insurance but....well, if he'd actually lived down here to any extent, he probably would have been aware of this problem sooner.