WGBA -Late Snow Removal Angers Apartment Tenants
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Many people in Northeast Wisconsin continue to dig out from last week's blizzard including some ticked off tenants in one Pulaski apartment complex. The parking lot, sidewalks and walkways were covered with a foot of ice and snow for nearly five days after the storm passed.
Jody Wagnitz says the last week has been miserable trying to get around her apartment. "Very difficult, I purposely did not go grocery shopping so I did not have to carry bags through mounds of snow and try to get into my apartment."
Wagnitz says it took until Saturday afternoon before her sidewalk was cleared of snow by the snow removal company hired by her landlord. The snow had blown and drifted, so much so Wagnitz says, their mail carrier refused to deliver Thursday. "We were unable to get mail on Thursday because it still hadn't been cleared."
Pat Femling, owner of the complex, says several attempts were made to clean away the snow. "We've always done the snow removal this is just an unusal circumstance, things came up and we were just not able to get there on our own and when you are relying on someone else to do it you are at the mercy of their timeline."
Tenant Doug Kabara says that's not good enough. "It's frustrating walking through snow waist deep in some places and all that If they're going to be landlords they should do their responsibilities right away." Femling says; "We have always gone out and taken care of the sidewalks, again this was an unusual situation." The owners have turned over snow removal of the sidewalks and walkways to the same company that clears the parking lot of their building.
Tenants hope the situation improves as the early winter weather season continues.
