Friday, November 23, 2007

Holding court in Brooklyn

With foreclosures and Housing Court cases up in Brooklyn, court officials have launched the state's first courtroom just for small-building disputes.

Small-building squabbles to get own housing court

The new court, which opened two weeks ago on the fifth floor of Brooklyn Housing Court, seeks to settle disputes in one- and two-family buildings - where homeowners are at high risk of foreclosure if there is any gap in rental income, officials said.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's this about?

If I bought my single family home knowing I could not pay the mortgage, but converted a portion of it to install a paying tenent to pay my mortgage, but breaking the building law doing so - I can get off scott free?

Since I did not do that,are law abiding property owners such as my self chumps in today's day and age of credit crunches? The no pricipal, ballon payment and 10 yr interest payment, no income verification loans - no job not good enough? The judges should throw these manipulators out onto the street. Let the banks take back the properties and sell them at losses before the City amends an illegal Building code violation to allow these folks to stay in their homes.

Anonymous said...

Hey, remember all that junk email and phone calls - 'your loan is approved'.

Anyone stupid enough to fall for that should pay the price, no matter if they are an important tweeded group.

Anonymous said...

Geez.....
if that "smile" ever freezes
on that judge's face.....
you can make a Halloween mask from it .

"Trick or treat" or is it "treat or foreclosure" ?

Anonymous said...

to ward off advances, she's putting her wedding ring out there on display, to make it clear that she's taken.

Anonymous said...

Now that's a scary face.