Tenant has no renter's insurance after being relocated

[Mikel Kaubfa]

I think this is more of an opinion than a legal question.

I, like many other people, had a crazy awful pipe burst on an outer wall during that polar vortex back a bit ago. Bad design, but not my choice. Unit was not habitable while it was being fixed as there was no water to the unit. Tenant decides to go stay at a hotel and eat out at Bdubs.

Now he's asking for reimbursement for that, and it was due to the situation that he was displaced. <y insurance will not cover him, and told me that was a renter's insurance thing.

He informed me today that he did NOT have renter's insurance even though i am confident i recommended every tenant have renter's insurance in case of incidents like this

Tenant has been good otherwise.

Should i cover this? Maybe just the hotel portion? His meal was $50 freaking dollars! I just don't want to be out that much.