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Maybe you should stop being such a slumlord charging overpriced rents for illegal rooms. They are illegal for a reason; it's miserable to live out of a room without reasons. Then you have the audacity to go after this guy for "unpaid rent" you were BREAKING THE LAW. Hopefully he does go to a lawyer, and you get hard prison time for this
The room was legal, and he got a bonus office next to it. He should be thankful, instead he gyped his friend on the rent then threatened her. I guess that's a hero in Boogey's World
The room was legal, and he got a bonus office next to it. He should be thankful, instead he gyped his friend on the rent then threatened her. I guess that's a hero in Boogey's World
To me it sounds like a common ending for rental transactions in New York City and it is one that intensifies when its subletted under the table with no contract. Anywhere really, many rental relationships have bitter endings. I figure Boogey is in The Bronx because the screen name is a mispelled "Boogie Down" like the old school pioneering hip hop group from The Bronx... Boogey means business though... you break the law you pay the Piper
About a 9 on the Taking things overboard scale Boogey, don't you think?
Lets keep the over the top reactions contained to just the PR refugee topics...
*lol* The man is on a rampage when it comes to being outraged about *the less fortunate*. Cannot stop foaming at the mouth about people being priced out and the less fortunate.
Now learn from your mistake, and strongly consider moving if you cant afford your rent, because you're not renting rooms out of the goodness of your heart...
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
Now learn from your mistake, and strongly consider moving if you cant afford your rent, because you're not renting rooms out of the goodness of your heart...
Where would you recommend the OP move if he can't afford his rent as it is? Most New Yorkers are *rent burdened*, so cannot afford to even put monies together to move. Vicious cycle all around.
Where would you recommend the OP move if he can't afford his rent as it is? Most New Yorkers are *rent burdened*, so cannot afford to even put monies together to move. Vicious cycle all around.
OP said they live in Brooklyn, so move to Queens
I mean they were living there 17 years, I think they had enough time after 10 to see the writing on the wall...
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
did anyone bother to even read the thread? The guy is already gone. OP is trying to collect back rent, but the guy is retaliating saying the bedroom was never legal to begin with and is threatening (bluffing) with legal action.
Both hands are dirty. There is no lease so no attorney in their right mind will touch it. To the OP, your back rent is gone, just be thankful the guy is out of your place and let this be a valuable lesson, tuition in the school of hard knocks.
Are we done here?
Personally, you're all crazy for living in New York and being rent burdened as there are much more affordable options outside the city limits. The city income tax sucks. Jersey City is so much more affordable, yes even with paying an additional transfer for PATH, just based on city income tax savings alone, which is probably going to be a lot worse with tax reform.
did anyone bother to even read the thread? The guy is already gone. OP is trying to collect back rent, but the guy is retaliating saying the bedroom was never legal to begin with and is threatening (bluffing) with legal action.
Both hands are dirty. There is no lease so no attorney in their right mind will touch it. To the OP, your back rent is gone, just be thankful the guy is out of your place and let this be a valuable lesson, tuition in the school of hard knocks.
Are we done here?
Personally, you're all crazy for living in New York and being rent burdened as there are much more affordable options outside the city limits. The city income tax sucks. Jersey City is so much more affordable, yes even with paying an additional transfer for PATH, just based on city income tax savings alone, which is probably going to be a lot worse with tax reform.
We're not all rent burdened and plenty of us enjoy it. 8.4m people live here, everyone's situation is different.
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