‘Locked me out of everything’: Woman locked out of apartment months after car crashed into it
By Kate Amara
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REISTERSTOWN, Maryland (WBAL) — A woman is not allowed to enter her apartment two months after a car crashed through her front wall.
Marcia Shawn ran a quick errand, and the accident happened just as she returned. Now, she’s still locked out of her apartment, and she hasn’t been able to contact her landlord.
Shawn doesn’t have any chairs in her new apartment because everything is still locked up in her old apartment that the landlord isn’t letting her enter.
“They basically locked me out of everything I own. So, that’s like my entire life savings,” Shawn said.
Shawn, a 67-year-old amputee, lives at the Reisterstown Senior Complex.
“My portfolio, so to speak, of all the work I’ve done, I’ve got lots of important things in there,” Shawn said.
Shawn used to live in a unit on the ground floor, until a tenant who lives on the third floor crashed her Nissan Rogue into it around 6 p.m. on Dec. 16, according to Baltimore County police.
“Thank God that I was not in that chair when it happened. I had just come back into the door and was standing behind my recliner when ‘Bam, crash,’ everything flashes, flew up everywhere,” Shawn said.
Her landlord, Severn Management, boarded up the building and changed the locks, relocating Shawn to a different unit down the hall.
The landlord won’t communicate with her or her lawyer as Shawn tries to enter the apartment and collect her belongings.
“Everybody asks me why. My lawyer is just baffled. He can’t believe this. Discriminated against,” Shawn said.
She doesn’t understand what’s going on but said she might have to sue depending on how much longer the situation goes on.
WBAL-TV 11 News reached out to the property management company in person at the front office on Thursday, and over email, but there has been no response.
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