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My friend is really frustrated right now.
His house plumbing backed up and is unable to find the source.
They called a plumber out and he ran 150 feet of snake and nothing.
He suggested that it...

It really sounds like you hit the nail on the head. I have not had any gurgling since they came out to open things up. (fingers crossed)
However, it was not once in a while. The thing gurgled at...

Thats what I don't understand. The Main drain is huge and is connected to all 6 apartments on my side of the building. I am the only one who had a sewage backup. If the stoppage was in the main...

Sorry, forgot the pic.

In this picture I indicated with red lines, the sections he took off to look.
5 sections in all.
You mentioned vents? It should have them or it shouldn't?

So They came out to look at my toilet. They went downstairs and opened the pipes to my toilet all the way to the huge main line and found no clog or problem at all.
I enclosed pictures of the setup...

I called and they sent out somebody that night to clean up the mess and pull the carpet. The next day they sent out a professional cleaning crew. Once everything was dry, they sent out a carpet...

I will do that. I documented everything during the sewage backup, going as far as saving all e-mails and actual mail correspondance from the complex manager.
I have everything in a nice folder as...

Well, this is pretty upscale place and management is pretty attentive.
They have been really attentive to this issue since it happened.
So again, what should my recourse be? Should professional...

Would they do that from my apartment, or underneath where all the pipes are at?

Why do you say that? Is the problem not fixable?

Another detail I just remembered:
On the night of the sewage backup, my wife recalls hearing the upstairs neighbor flushing the toilet like 20 times she says.
The upstairs neighbor has like 5 cats....

This is a little long, but PLEASE, I need some advice.

So we live in a 3 story apartment complex.
Ever since we moved in, one of our bathroom toilets periodically gurgles.
When it does, the...