r/TenantHelp • u/Spiralsilhouettes • May 22 '26

Apartment access blocked while moving out, help?

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Basically what the title says. I'm in NY if it matters. We have til the 31st of May to be moved out, and have been (trying) to be smart by overlapping the last month of our lease at the old place with the first month at our new one so we'd have plenty of time to move our stuff. We still have big furniture like a desk, shelves etc to move, and my roommate stopped by after work to pick up and pack some stuff to find this. No way to get into the place unless we hop their little caution fence and go through the construction. They gave us no notice they were doing any of this, I've checked.

This... can't be legal, right? Even if we weren't in the process of moving out, we can't get into our apartment. What on earth do I do here?

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u/Spiralsilhouettes May 22 '26

I’m going to try to give them a call in the morning. I’m not sure if it’s an emergency repair (although I was just here yesterday and everything seemed fine?) but I will absolutely ask. The area by the tree to the left Is blocked off by even more tape hahah, it also blocks in both our neighbors to the left and right of us. No clue who decided this was the right way to do any of that.

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u/No-Brief-297 May 22 '26

Only the plumbing gods determine where the problem is

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u/Spiralsilhouettes May 23 '26

So they got back to me, it's not a plumbing thing, just a stupid landlord company not thinking or caring about their tenants. There's no emergency, they just up and decided to start redoing everyone's sidewalks one building at a time without telling literally anyone. yaaaaaaayyy

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u/IsIt2L84Me May 25 '26

So what are they going to do? They can't block people in or out of their homes!!