I hope someone breaks a leg

[Forevryoung]

Seriously, I am fuming. I called the company that manages my apartment building because I had three issues regarding the obscene amount of snow we got and their handling of it.
1) our parking lot wasnt plowed until 5pm yesterday
2) our walkway from the parking lot to the door wasn't shoveled and it was already noon
3) I had slipped twice because the floor right inside the door was covered in melted snow and it makes the floor like an evil slip and slide.

so they couldn't do anything about #1 it was after the fact. #2 was taken care of less than 2 hours later.

When I got home 5 hours after I had called (and was told them would take care of it) there still was NO mat by the door! So I called the emergency number thinking that if they wanted to avoid a lawsuit they would move their butt (someone is going to get seriously injured, it's that bad). But the lady I spoke to said she would leave a message for the person I spoke with. I suggested she do something about it and she said that a mat isn't an emergency nope, it's not until someone gets hurt.

So I'm being mature and going downstairs every hour or so to check to see if a mat was put down. If it's not, I will call every hour or so until it's resolved. The floor should NOT be that slippery.

 

[Free4Life11]

Same types of things with my building. They'll shovel the walk but the stairs that are outdoor don't get shoveled! And some genius set up a drain on the gutters so that it flows right onto the sidewalk causing a huge patch of ice!

 

[Spoodleink]

Mine cleared the sidewalk but not the huge pile of snow between the parking lot and the sidewalk. A plow came through once and cleared a tiny path in our parking lot. Our outdoor steps were also not cleared. The parking lot is a nightmare right now.

 

[LadyyRedd]

We still aren't cleared.

Kimya

 

[Cool-Beans]

I once lived in a building in which we had to have a rent strike in order to get heat. Plowing just wasn't done. If you didn't shovel yourself out, you stayed in.

And nothing ever got fixed. We fixed it and backed it off the rent. The landlord would THEN find time in his busy schedule for communicating with residents. We'd get a letter about how you couldn't back stuff off the rent, but he never pursued it.

Some landlords are great, some suck.

I'm sorry you've got yourself a crappy one.

I'll tell you this, though. Rent strikes are EXTREMELY effective. The first time he didn't get the rent from all of us, the heat went on three days later. But you have to have all the tenants pissed off enough to do it and stick together. Being cold will do that , I don't know about snow.