By skyforbes Starting last summer, we've been having issues with our one and only elevator. It breaks down nearly every day and someone has to come fix it for us. I'm not exaggerating, every day. There are periods time (like 1-2 weeks) where it's fine, then goes back to breaking down.
They are FINALLY going to replace the elevator soon which will take roughly 10 weeks. I'm on the 6th floor and have a medical condition that makes going up 6 flights of stairs (7 when doing laundry), difficult as my heart rate gets higher than most and I get very short for breath due to it. I have read that buildings need to have an elevator if it has 5 floors or more. I reached out to the office and they are refusing to offer any sort of rent reduction and are infact still increasing rent for the next lease cycle as they normally do. Not only will they not provide any sort of rent reduce, they will not provide any reasonable accommodations and advised me not to purchase heavy things in this time period (almost 1/4 of the year lol). Is this legal? How do I go about fighting this and getting a rent reduction/some sort of accommodation implemented like hiring people to help carry items up and downstairs or even money given to send laundry out? I don't want to leave but this is truly insane.