Boy did we get side-tracked on this one. I just went back and looked at the original question as I was writing my column for next weekend.
Here are the facts – some of the heavy stuff is Sarah_1’s, some is her landlord’s.
There’s no question that she is going to have her life disrupted while this work is going on, temporarily diminishing the value of her rental property.
She doesn’t have to touch the landlord’s stuff if she doesn’t want to. So why doesn’t she ask the landlord to pay for all the stuff, including hers, to be moved and replaced by way of compensation for the inconvenience and disruption that she’s having to put up with.
There, that wasn’t so hard …