Improper Maintenance at High Rise Apartments - Netska Law Group

Improper Maintenance at High Rise Apartments

October 20, 2022 Admin Comments Off

Downtown Fort Lauderdale highrise? Miami highrise? Manhattan or Brooklyn highrise?

Regardless which city you’ve decided to settle down in, they all have one thing in common. Ownership and management have a responsibility to adequately maintain the building and the common grounds. Improper maintenance of properties and buildings are subject to laws under the premises liability theory, which govern how owners and managers are to maintain the premises to help ensure the safety of residents, guests, and employees.

Maintenance responsibilities must include all property areas, including lobbies, stairways, offices or apartments inside the property, elevators, escalators, sidewalks, parking garages, driveways, courtyards, and exterior walkways.

Commercial highrises are quickly constructed in growing cities and oftentimes ownership fails to account for the budgets required to truly manage a building with 200+ residents. The manpower and resources required to effectively maintain the building are often overshadowed because profits are put above the people. You pay a lot of money to live in these buildings and ownership/management should be held to the highest standards.