Hi, I an owner of a condominium here in MA/Boston. The Condo is a small (two person) association including myself and the owner of the other condo. For the past six months my nightmare condo neighbor has had someone living with her. This person is about 65 yrs old, extremely overweight and walks with a cane. She has a handicap parking permit in her car, so she clearly is also handicap . My condo neighbor has two exterior stairway exits. One being her front door (with 3 small steps leading to her door) and the other being a side stairway leading up to her condo on the 2nd level. My neighbor and her guest use this "fire escape" stairway to enter and exit the condo every day/night, they never use the front door exit. There are probably about 20 steps in total on this "fire escape" stairway and it's about 30 ft in height. My condo neighbors handicap, overweight "guest" walks down backwards on the stairs when she exits the condo. As a registered nurse who works in geriatrics I know this a huge fall and safety risk. My concern is with the winter coming, and these steps always being extremely icy/slippery, that my neighbors handicap guest is putting herself at a huge risk to fall down these "fire escape" like steps. How would this work if she is to fall and file a claim against the home owners insurance, since I wouldn't put it past these people? I'm not sure if my neighbors exterior steps would be considered as the "common area", I don't think they are, but I'm not sure. If my neighbor was sane I would raise my concern to her, but this lady is impossible to talk to and mentally unstable. The only way to deal with her is to ignore her. Unfortunately talking to her is not an option.
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