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2020 Landlord Watchlist. You can look up your building to see if it's on the watchlist. NYCHA made the top of the list again. I think that makes it two or three years in a row.
One more reason to save up and buy your own home like I did 30 years ago, a 1-family home on SI. It's not cheap but you control your own living space. No nasty NYC landlords, no banging on the pipes when the heat isn't turned up enough, no endless arguments over evrything. And I have a private driveway.
I think it's ridiculous that the city "bans" the use of the so-called tenant blacklist by LLs (with the threat of a $1,000 fine), but then the Public Advocate puts out a list shaming LLs. Don't get me wrong, I think that both should be allowed/use without the threat of any penalty for doing so. But I think that there needs to be some consistency.
I think it's ridiculous that the city "bans" the use of the so-called tenant blacklist by LLs (with the threat of a $1,000 fine), but then the Public Advocate puts out a list shaming LLs. Don't get me wrong, I think that both should be allowed/use without the threat of any penalty for doing so. But I think that there needs to be some consistency.
I wish there was a list of the worst tenants, with a legal report of missed and late payments, and how they left the apartment after leaving. That would be the lesson of a lifetime for some.
I think it's ridiculous that the city "bans" the use of the so-called tenant blacklist by LLs (with the threat of a $1,000 fine), but then the Public Advocate puts out a list shaming LLs. Don't get me wrong, I think that both should be allowed/use without the threat of any penalty for doing so. But I think that there needs to be some consistency.
The issue with tenant blacklists is a tenant can end up on it simply because a landlord wants to get rid of them. I watched American Greed, which showcased a NYC landlord that bought dozens of apartments in NYC and did his best to run out all of the rent stabilized tenants so that he could kick them out and bring the apartments to market rate rent. If you lived in such an apartment, you would be singing a different tune.
He made all sorts of bogus accusations, created ongoing construction projects which compromised tenant health, and pretended he didn't receive rent payments to find an excuse to haul tenants into court to ask the court to evict said tenants. The only thing those people did was live in a rent stabilized apartment. That was their only "misdeed".
Guy even served jail time for his greed and crooked behavior.
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