She has a second floor unit, & wants to keep a trash can & recycling bin for personal use outside in the walkways, or in the outdoor space of the other units on the lower level. (This is a small historic building in a downtown with very tight parking & lower units have room for patio tables along common walk way).
Bc we're downtown/tight site, these are single occupancy units & town does weekly pickup + transfer station open during week, tenants just use a regular trashcan in their unit/all units have a big walk in pantry as well. Never more than 1 bag of trash generated anyways.
She has the largest exterior space- private 12x20 deck (which is huge for our location). Basically comes down to, she doesn't want to have it in her own space & is claiming bc her knee surgery isn't getting better she needs to keep a trashcan on lower level. But she can bring things up to her unit just fine, & bring trash down to the trashcan fine. To be clear, she's lived here a month & had knee surgery in spring, so, well aware of limitations prior to signing lease. Idk. It's not the hill I'd die on, but apparently she would