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Where is the apartment located? Do you know what the asking rent will be when back on market? Does it get good natural lighting?
Joey, you forgot the biggie: "Is it rent stabilized?"
<Remember the Seinfeld episode where the guy with the nice stabilized apartment died and all the mourners were interested in only one thing...How do they get the apartment.>
The last apartment I left was very nice and an acquaintance always liked it so he took it after we left. Six months later in mid-Summer he EXPLODED...so yes, it happens.
Long ago, another died and they routinely used disinfectant. Nobody noticed any smell UNTIL they sprayed place and then the smell of the disinfectant. It was intolerably nauseating for a week. Go figger.
Now I can walk along the street, smell that disinfectant, and tell immediately if someone had bought the big one in a building I am passing.
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Speaking practically, though. How does a single person try to minimize the chances of being left to rot? A yechhy thought.
But you do have to be careful. A friend #1 of a certain age was going to meet Her much younger friend #2 and they missed one another. (#1 is NEVER where she is supposed to be when she is supposed to be there.) So friend #2 called the police and they arrives with firemen and busted down #1's door. Of course #1 was out looking for #2.
Each thought the other was at fault and they have not spoken since. I think the final straw was when #2 said "Well, you never know with the elderly" (#1 would never admit to being "elderly."
Joey, you forgot the biggie: "Is it rent stabilized?"
<Remember the Seinfeld episode where the guy with the nice stabilized apartment died and all the mourners were interested in only one thing...How do they get the apartment.>
The last apartment I left was very nice and an acquaintance always liked it so he took it after we left. Six months later in mid-Summer he EXPLODED...so yes, it happens.
Long ago, another died and they routinely used disinfectant. Nobody noticed any smell UNTIL they sprayed place and then the smell of the disinfectant. It was intolerably nauseating for a week. Go figger.
Now I can walk along the street, smell that disinfectant, and tell immediately if someone had bought the big one in a building I am passing.
Good question. I really don't know to be honest. As far as I know all of the apartments are market rate. He was the only elderly person in the building, as most people are fairly young.
I live in an apartment building where a guy chopped up his roommate after a fight and tried to dissolve the body in bleach. Now someone else lives in that apartment you just never know with these older buildings.
I live in an apartment building where a guy chopped up his roommate after a fight and tried to dissolve the body in bleach. Now someone else lives in that apartment you just never know with these older buildings.
Disgusting... Was that in the Bronx by chance? I wonder if the current tenant knows...
Too funny. Reminds one of how years ago persons looking for apartments in NYC (in particular Manhattan) would scan obituary notices to learn when apartments were becoming vacant. This went on right through the 1980's IIRC. That or persons cultivated relationships with supers/building care takers to find out when there was a death in a building to get a leg up on an apartment.
I remember a shooting in Washington Heights, probably also in the 80s. When the news interviewed the dead guy's landlord on live TV the day he was shot, he mentioned that he'd already had three people inquire into the availability of the deceased guy's apartment.
One of our neighbors (elderly man) was discovered dead in his apartment yesterday and had been dead for almost two weeks. There was a sign from the NYPD with a padlock on the door. I spoke with a neighbor who said that the super tried to get in but couldn't and that the authorities had to break down the door and when they did, they discovered him dead and covered by flies. The building is being ventilated to get rid of the pungent stench, but the question is what responsibility does the management have to ensure that no other residents are become ill from this situation? I imagine that an autopsy has to be done first to determine the cause of death, and once they NYPD clears the apartment, management can go in take it from there and clean the apartment, etc. What are they required to do to make the apartment and the other residents safe? are they required to do a gut job?
There are companies that specialize in this kind of cleanup. They are often recommended, off the record, by police to relatives. Here is one such company: islandtrauma.com/ It is obviously specialized and nasty and necessary work.
Are there any reported cases of tenants getting sick because there was a decaying corpse in the building for a period of time?
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you just never know with these older buildings.
