'I walked outside and the stairs were gone': Tenant gets stuck in apartment for 10-12 hours after landlord orders unexpected stair maintenance, she needs to climb down a ladder to get to work

No one would want to be in this lady's situation.

Imagine waking up one morning to impossibly annoying construction sounds, only to discover that what's happened outside the front door of your apartment is unexpected stair maintenance that makes it impossible for you to leave your apartment. No, the landlord did not notify the tenant about this maintenance in advance. No, the tenant didn't miss any emails or calls about this beforehand. 

Now, she had no way of getting to work. Sure, in theory, it's nice to have a totally legitimate excuse to stay home. However, it's not nice to feel like you are confined to your apartment while incessant construction noises are happening for 10-12 hours straight. That's not exactly a blissful escape from the workday.

The tenant ended up enlisting the help of the fire marshal. They even went so far as to almost bring a ladder in to get her down all those flights of stairs just to get to work. Apparently, however, that was a liability as well. This is one of those situations where any way you go about it seems to be some kind of liability.

This landlord had better give this tenant some kind of major rent cut, unless he wants to be sued. After all, there is no way that doing repairs of this magnitude without notifying tenants or providing proper safety measures for them to leave their homes was legal. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the advice the tenant received from several members of this online community.

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