If you choose to leave the landlord out of this then you are taking on the responsibility and the cost, unless it's an emergency, the landlord is out of town, it's a weekend or something. But if you're just sick of workmen, it's not a good excuse. You either choose to handle it yourself with a plumber and cleaning and drying the place, or you let the landlord handle it.

You HAVE to call the landlord. This is NOT an option. You as the tenant are not permitted to call any contractors at all. You get no say what so ever in what projects are or are not done to the property. Provided the house is livable by legal standards & they give you proper notice they can do any work they see fit. As long as you rent it is NOT your house.

It's probably clogged. Call the owner and tell them what happened and ask what they want you to do. They may be able to fix it by using a plunger. Mop up the water on the floor right away then wash the floor with a solution of 1 cup bleach in 1 gallon of water.

CALL THE OWNER ASAP, you are responsible as a tenant to notify the owner, landlord or their representative in the event of an issue like this...read your lease.

There is so much else that could happen as a result (mold is the one that jumps out at me). This needs to be resolved in all ways, not just what you can see without ripping out the walls or floor.

Nope nope don't call the plumber first---always call the owner first!! Only spend your own money on a plumber if the owner cannot be reached in a reasonable amount of time.

You don't say where the water was leaking from. Typically toilets leak because the valve inside stops working and they overflow. This is NOT a cleanliness issue. Sometimes the shutoff valve to the toilet fails also----again NOT a cleaniiness issue. The likelyhood of actual toilet water leaking is essentially nil unless the toilet is physically broken/cracked-----and even then is not really an issue.

CALL THE OWNER - they are responsible for plumbing problems If you attempt to make repairs yourself and something goes wrong the owner could sue you for damages to his property.,

Call the landlord. It's ultimately their decision.

Call a plumber first.

This house has had nothing but problems - especially plumbing. We hear a trickle sound and realize water is coming from two places in the ceiling. We run upstairs and the toilet had been running all over the floor. What is the easiest way to deal with this on our own or will this have to involve a flood restoration company? I would like to avoid calling the landlord, because they keep doing projects over here, and I'm so sick of having people in our house 24/7. At the same time, I don't want it to cause damage to someone else's property if it can ruin the ceilings/walls, etc