Landlord Tries To Hustle Tenants, Tenants Stop Paying Rent

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Landlord Tries To Hustle Tenants, Tenants Stop Paying Rent

Wow, this tale of a revenge taken by tenants against their landlord in New York reads like a real life fairytale. The landlord was trying to run up those tenants' repairs tabs, and didn't anticipate that they'd do their research on the building. That research resulted in learning that the landlord/landlord's company never got a note of occupancy for the building. Fast forward, and the tenants have a lawyer who basically set them up with rent-free living for around a year, in New York. Insane.

Enjoy some more landlord revenge drama over here with the time that a landlord refused to give tenants their deposit, so a court revenge followed.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/Shaftway • 1y Thanks for the year of free rent in Brooklyn So a friend and I move into this newly renovated apartment in Brooklyn. It's nice enough, but just about every one of the 14 units has some sort of weird problem. One unit had the hot and cold water mixed up (flush a few times and get a heated toilet), one unit none of the outlets are grounded. One unit there are gaps around the windows. The problem in our unit was a leak in the air conditioner lines. The lea

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$Text - At the end of the summer they decided that our repairs (and all of the neighbors) were getting too expensive. So they send us bills. Our bill was in the tens of thousands of dollars (recharging that system weekly must have been expensive). They also start trying to charge every unit for any infraction, like $100 for every unit for a single scrap of paper found in a hall. The tenants all get together to have a little meeting. It turns out that they never got a certificate of occupancy for$