The roach situation has improved, but Daniel still has to call the super every time he wants to take a shower. Also, on Sunday, when it was 21 degrees in New York, he didn’t have any heat until 6pm.
landlords
What To Do When Rental Gets Foreclosed?
By 11.19.07
2 weeks ago both my wife and I got a summons, that let us know that our landlord was being sued by the bank he financed the house through, for not paying his mortgage since July of this year…
Stuck With Dermot Management, A Modern-Day Slumlord
By 10.30.07
A reader writes:
A major NYC real estate corp [Dermot Management] is seriously fucking its tenants, myself included, and I just signed my lease a week ago and am now stuck with these bastards.
Landlord: Quick, The 90-Year-Old Kicked The Bucket, Lock Up Her Stuff So We Can Rent Her Apartment!
By 8.26.07
“>Metroblogging Los Angeles]
What Is "As-Is?"
By 6.12.07
…In which a reader learns, through the power of IM, the definition of the contractual clause “As-Is,” and how it applies to the damaged apartment he subleased…
Slumlord Ordered To Live In Own Building Until Repairs Are Made
By 5.25.07
Stealing a page from “The Super” screenplay, an Ohio judge ordered a landlord to live in one of his decrepit buildings until repairs are made.
Help! Landlord Making Up Bogus Cleaning Charges
By 4.13.07
Keith wants some help with his landlord making up bogus cleaning charges when he left his apartment.
Clean Up Your Tenant History With The FCRA
By 2.22.07
The Fair Credit Reporting Act doesn’t just regulate the Big Three (Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax). It also regulates tenant screening agencies that report things like late rent payments, evictions, and other tenant information. Tenant-related information may show up in traditional credit reports or in tenant screening agency reports. If your rental application is denied, get a copy of any reports that were used in denying your application and, if anything is inaccurate, challenge it.
HOW TO: Re-Up Your Lease, Keep The Same Rent
By 1.5.07
We and our girlfriend’s 12 month apartment lease ran out and so we signed another lease, but our rent stayed the same.
After Internet Humiliation, Landlord Stops Harassing Reader
By 11.14.06
Doug was mad because Woodmont Real Estate was coming after him for rent he felt he didn’t owe. So he made a webpage complaining about the collection agents they sicced on him, along with a litany of the apartment complex’s shortcomings (hot dogs in the hot tub, windows that won’t open, etc).
One Pearl Place Is A Shithole
By 11.8.06
Doug has set up a fun website to put his former apartment complex, One Pearl Place, in the stockades. Hot dogs in the hot tub, thin walls, windows that won’t open, broken glass left on stairways, and a little thing about them trying to get him to pay $400 extra dollars.
Apartment ‘Painted’ With 100 Gallons
By 5.15.06
Rent-stabilized apartments in New York are the bane of their landlords, gnashing their teeth like the rats they unleash to drive out unwanted tenants.
Morning News Roundup: Pigs O’er Manhattan Edition
By 4.7.06
HOWTO: Get the Landlord to Repair Stuff
By 3.29.06
Sometimes, you just can’t ever get the landlord to fix that refrigerator that keeps running…
Landlord Cancels Deposit Check, Makes Other Checks Bounce, Sucks
By 3.6.06
Thanks to this, several of his checks bounced and he got lots of insufficient fund fees.
Bad Landlords: ‘We Were Dolls in Her Dollhouse’
By 3.1.06
Trembicky has a very very bad landlord story that sounds like a prelude to a chainsaw massacre.
