Our question this week comes from Marissa: “I am 65 years old. I live in a one of these new ‘over 50 communities’ which was built in the last three years. Recently I was taking my trash out, I walk down the stairs for exercise, and I missed the first step as the carpet was all the same color and it was hard to see the first stair. I reached for the railing and couldn’t get a grip because it was just a painted 2×6 nailed to the wall. I fell down a whole flight of stairs and compressed two vertebra in my neck, now I have to have surgery. The landlord’s manager told me I should have opened my eyes and been watching where I was going. Isn’t there some rule about carpet, stairs and handrails?“>