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I lived in a building in Jersey City slowly being ruined by a slumlord, where a man with a van in his 50's was sleeping with a 15 year old girl. Her brothers poured gasoline in front of his door, first floor, and torched it .
The hallways had just been painted with oil base paint that was barely dry.
The hallway shot into flames up 4 floors to the roof but most damage was to the hallways and stairs, burning and blackening all the walls. THe walls survived because they were 1917 real plaster.
This was at 6AM so everyone was home.
Sick humor department: we all had to leave so we did. Friend left her apartment unlocked so firemen could enter. They did...with a fire-axe, smashing down her door. Lower apartments suffered lots of water damage. I suffered no damage.
The high price some of us pay for rent control...4 big rooms, original oak floors and crown and picture molding for $160
Last edited by Kefir King; 12-04-2015 at 06:00 PM..
I lived in a building in Jersey City slowly being ruined by a slumlord, where a man with a van in his 50's was sleeping with a 15 year old girl. Her brothers poured gasoline in front of his door, first floor, and torched it .
The hallways had just been painted with oil base paint that was barely dry.
The hallway shot into flames up 4 floors to the roof but most damage was to the hallways and stairs, burning and blackening all the walls. THe walls survived because they were 1917 real plaster.
This was at 6AM so everyone was home.
Sick humor department: we all had to leave so we did. Friend left her apartment unlocked so firemen could enter. They did...with a fire-axe, smashing down her door. Lower apartments suffered lots of water damage. I suffered no damage.
The high price some of us pay for rent control...4 big rooms, original oak floors and crown and picture molding for $160
That's terrible KK! Sorry you had to go through that. What happened after the matter?
Landlord used the insurance money to fix the hallways and restore the electricity. He then tried to claim the repairs were a capital improvement and get a 20% rent increase (Jersey City had and still has universal rent control on all but new waterfront towers.)
We beat him in court and he said to me "I should have kept the money and let the building be condemned." I moved soon after into a new "luxury" waterfront high-rise (Newport,) with a "deal I could not refuse."
I ran into him a while later and he said proudly "I'm getting $475 for your old apartment."
Illegally, I might add, because there is no vacancy decontrol but the Rent Control Board is as crooked as they come.
This shows us how abusive rent control is. $160 a month doesn't cover even the landlords expenses in operating the building. Good for him getting more money for the apartment.
To me the enforcers of rent control are illegal and unconstitutional.
This shows us how abusive rent control is. $160 a month doesn't cover even the landlords expenses in operating the building. Good for him getting more money for the apartment.
To me the enforcers of rent control are illegal and unconstitutional.
And meanwhile when the story was first posted, everyone was jumping all over the previous tenants who had a stove installed and removed. They probably had a heart attack since that was all over the news as well.
This shows us how abusive rent control is. $160 a month doesn't cover even the landlords expenses in operating the building. Good for him getting more money for the apartment.
To me the enforcers of rent control are illegal and unconstitutional.
Well said!
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