A Coram woman says a burst pipe forced her family and others out of their apartment Monday.

Marion Barton tells News 12 the flooding started on the third floor at Wincoram Commons. It trickled down to her apartment on the first floor.

Barton says she left that evening and found her belongings thrown in garbage bags and wrapped in plastic on Tuesday.

Her family is staying at a hotel.

"You didn't really want to put us in a hotel that had a kitchen in it," Barton says. "But who's paying to eat out every day for a whole family of four. I'm not doing that. That's more money that I don't have to pay. For a problem we didn't cause."

The management company of the building is the same one that owns an East Patchogue apartment building where residents say they have no heat.

Building management says it's staying in communication with the displaced families and expects them to be back home soon.