{"id":69560,"date":"2014-02-15T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=69560"},"modified":"2014-02-15T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:51:10","slug":"take-the-stairs-all-3000-of-them-dubai-developer-threatens-to-turn-off-the-lifts-in-the-worlds-tallest-building-in-dispute-over-unpaid-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=69560","title":{"rendered":"Take the stairs… all 3,000 of them: Dubai developer threatens to turn off the lifts in the world’s tallest building in dispute over unpaid fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you live in the world’s tallest building, there is one thing you almost certainly cannot do without – access to the elevator.<\/p>\n

But for the residents of the 160-storey Burj Khalifa in Dubai that has become a very real possibility.<\/p>\n

They have been threatened with having to haul themselves up as many as 2,900 stairs after the developers warned it might cut off the lifts in a dispute over unpaid fees.<\/p>\n

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Emaar Properties, which runs the 2,722ft tower, says some residents have failed to pay their service charges – which can be as high as $25,000 (\u00a315,000) a year – since 2012.<\/p>\n

It has not yet unplugged the air conditioning or the elevators, but has threatened to do so, according to\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Burj Khalifa contains nearly 1,000 apartments from floors 12 to 108.<\/p>\n

One-bedroom flats fetch around $55,000 (\u00a333,000) in rent a year, while service charges can add a further $25,000 (\u00a315,000) to the total.<\/p>\n

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