Dear [Insert Name of Large Property Management Company Here],
I know that usually you're very good to your tenants, which is why it is with a heavy heart that I mock you today. Yesterday you decided to tear out the concrete steps that lead up to our apartment building and replace them, puring new concrete steps. Fine. You also sent a notice about it a couple of weeks ago, in which you cautioned people to walk on the walkways that would be erected over the new concrete. Also fine.
However, some rocket scientist decided not to build the walkway, instead making the only way into or out of the building impassible. The idea is that we're either in for the entire night, or out for the entire night. This idea is a horrendously bad one, for the following reasons:
- How hard is it to build a walkway?
- Residents of at least one of the units in this building have dogs, and I doubt that they're going to let them crap and pee on the carpet because you're temporarily brain-dead
- I'm pretty sure that even the worst attorney in the world could make the argument that barring access to the premises is a material breach of the lease, even were that attorney half-comatose. And don't get me started on the premises liability issues.
I'm sure you will be angry to find animal and human footprints in the concrete, as well as the broken-off chunks of concrete. But that's not as angry as I was to find out that I would have been barred from my apartment were it not for the presence of the concrete guy who happened to have special pads to allow me to at least get inside the buidling.
Yours sincerely,
Geoff Brown
Leave a comment