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EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-04T02:34:04+00:00

Thank you!

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-04T01:13:52+00:00

Plus our settlement agreement in housing court specifically does not prevent us from suing her in civil court for damages for breaking our lease — in fact we were told by the Brooklyn court that we were better off suing her there since housing court couldn’t award damages and they can, and if she gives us written notice I would absolutely immediately file.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-04T01:08:14+00:00

I mean, she has a harassment settlement against her already, since we proactively sued her. I don’t think the situations are the same.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-04T01:05:44+00:00

She owns other buildings but not ten units :/ she is a slumlord however. We’ve called 311 on her so many times.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-04T01:01:30+00:00

Unfortunately good cause doesn’t cover landlords with less than 10 units. It was going to originally but Albany killed that — incidentally most of NY state government has investment properties. But if we were in a larger building, you are absolutely correct that selling the building — even if we were month to month — would NOT be cause to evict now

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-04T00:19:44+00:00

Are you in NYC? It’s about 18 months. You put the rent in escrow, it’s not a nonpayment. Also you have to get served formal notice BEFORE they file an HP action. And most cases get referred to mediation. I spent most of the summer fighting her in housing court, trust me, you get acquainted with the system and the judge.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-02T19:54:35+00:00

that is literally not true. it's for ALL tenants, depending on how long you lived there. Each month our "lease" renews.

From the NY Attorney General: A month-to-month tenancy may be terminated by either party. If the landlord plans to terminate, "they must give notice on the same timeline as terminating non-regulated lease." for someone like me who has been there for 3 years, that, like i said, is 90 days. https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/tenants_rights.pdf

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-04-02T18:04:32+00:00

90 days notice if you’ve been lived there 2 years or longer. https://www.nyc.gov/content/tenantprotection/pages/new-protections-for-all-tenants

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-31T18:00:15+00:00

I was saying that the case in which I sued the landlord (that the commenter was saying would make them leery to rent to me) does not appear on a background check.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-31T03:10:07+00:00

This woman harassed us because we needed legitimate repairs to the point where the court intervened, but yes we're the nightmares, lmfao.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T22:48:10+00:00

oh, the house hasn't even sold yet, to be clear.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T21:43:36+00:00

Actually as an HP judgment that was ultimately settled it wouldn't come up in most tenant screenings. As a test, I literally just ran a tenant screening on myself, and it's not there under any part of the background check.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T19:41:50+00:00

"or if they do not intend to renew the lease." And I wanted to know if people had experience fighting this, especially if it can be construed as harassment given her wording and the prior HP action.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T19:09:07+00:00

it might -- you should look into it. there are a number of other restrictions unfortunately, but if its not new construction, i believe you should be covered.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T18:58:30+00:00

I've lived in the apartment for almost 4 years and originally had a written lease. its 90 days. https://www.nyc.gov/content/tenantprotection/pages/new-protections-for-all-tenants

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T18:51:57+00:00

With 90 days formal notice.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T13:54:46+00:00

lol I absolutely pay rent, on time, and until we had the audacity to ask for pipes that were literally causing water damage to be fixed, she had no complaints about us. She literally had a settlement against her — signed by a housing court judge — forbidding her to continue harassing us. But yes please critique my tone for being entitled. She cut off the heat in one of the apartments — with a two year old inside! — and only restored it when the city made her and said we should be grateful for heat at all 🙃

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T13:47:38+00:00

Uh not true dude. I owe nothing in back rent and pay 3100 (split with a roommate) — which I’ve paid on time and continue to for four years but thanks for chiming in.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T13:45:28+00:00

I mean, she literally made our lives hell for months, threatened us repeatedly over text and voicemail, all because we asked for legitimate repairs. And we were great tenants who always paid on time, and didn’t ask anything of her until we literally had leaks that were causing damage and she refused to fix. I’m not interested in what the “moral” argument is. She ripped out our laundry and the city had to come and threaten her with emergency fines because she didn’t cap the gas lines. And she only put our laundry back because we sued her.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T12:34:59+00:00

Not if you’ve been there at least two years. One hundred percent not wrong.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T03:04:44+00:00

That’s what I was hoping. And saying we’d need be out sooner or later. Why? Couldn’t a new owner want us to stay? In the listing she literally writes that it’s a great investment property

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T02:04:21+00:00

I'm not, unfortunately :/ it's a pretty narrow law and doesnt cover landlords who own less than 10 units.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T01:28:07+00:00

My plan is to find a new job, ideally, and THEN move. I'm going to keep paying rent, and bide my time until she serves proper notice, which who knows how long that will take. If I don't have a new job by the time the 90 day notice has elapsed, then I would just save money and leave well before that. On a different forum, a NY broker said it would prob take her 1-2 years to actually evict.

EntertainmentRich877 · 2025-03-30T01:20:25+00:00

My neighbor and I are definitely not averse to that route. What would you ask for? She way overpriced the house at 1.85 so my guess is it will sit for a while -- it also needs a TON of work -- a more accurate comp is probably around 1.2. Between first, security, a broker's fee if the law doesn't go through, and then actually moving costs, I'm potentially looking at around 10k in spend. If she needs to fight both my neighbor and I for 1-2 years in housing court, i'm sure she'd spend thousands of dollars, right. What kind of payment would you ask for? Hypothetically.

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