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Your Prop Lease (and probably your House Rules) should have provisions that no Shareholder or resident can place items in the common areas including but not limited to lobbies, hallways, stairways, etc. They don't own any portion of their space outside of their interior doors, so they are unilaterally infringing on the common space of the building.
The property manager should send them a letter while you await your lawyer alerting them that they are in violation and have x amount of days to remove it or you'll go to legal action, at their cost, naturally. Letter writing is step #1. Get everything in writing, and cite the specific paragraphs that they are in violation of.
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I don't blame the person,especially while she is away. Maybe she should have installed it on the inside pointing toward the front door.
This is something I should have done a while back. I could've sworn on a couple of occasions something wasn't right when I came home.
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