Maintenance and Entering Multiple Units

[Kyle Petitjean]

As a Landlord or property manager, is it okay to approve a repair crew to enter another unit and cut through that unit’s wall to fix a leak in the adjacent unit’s leaking pipe? Keep in mind the leak is coming from the adjacent unit’s kitchen sink. I’m under the impression, the crew wants to do this because it’s less work for them since they won’t have to remove the sink plumbing to be able to enter the wall from the affected units side. So I guess the real question is, should the unaffected unit’s tenants have their lives disrupted so the plumbing crew can have less work?