Apparently Huffington Post picked up the story:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/landlo...vator_n_3829672.html
And here is the reply from the original poster:
Full Update: Apparently Reddit Works! The signs are gone and management claims they never put them there and despite their history of trying to squeeze revenues by forcing trash removal, hiking rents by a few hundred bucks a month, and charging for everything else they can think of... rest assured our elevators are safe. Thanks Reddit.
Note to Huffington Post and other reporters... you can stop calling, management denies placing the sign, there is no story here.
So no way to know if it was an official attempt by management to charge for using the elevator. It could have been them trying to get more ancillary income, or it could have been a sarcastic reply by a resident because they didn't like the rent/fee hikes they apparently had gotten lately.
If you were to guess, which do you think it was?