From the Daily News:A Queens family of seven is scrambling to find a place to live after their landlord served them with an eviction notice the day before Thanksgiving.
Laura and Thomas Cavanagh said began withholding rent on the Broad Channel home after their landlord refused to fix dozens of problems — ranging from black mold under the sink to a rodent infestation in the attic.
The city Department of Housing Preservation and Development has slapped property owner Anthony Adamkiewicz with more than two-dozen violations.
But Adamkiewicz’s son, Gerald, said the Cavanaghs were “horrible” tenants.
“They wrecked our house,” said Adamkiewicz’s son, Gerald. “They caused all these violations so they didn’t have to pay rent and then they wouldn’t let us fix anything.”
5 comments:
The law is: you cannot just withhold the rent; you're supposed to put it in an escrow account in a bank.
I get that this article is clearly intending to demonize the landlord, that's what we do here in NYC, right? They're all bad, right? But I'm going to say that maybe-- just maybe-- these 7 tenants have some sanitary issues of their own. Is the landlord supposed to be onsite 24/7 to clean-up after them? I'd never want to be a NYC landlord, that's for sure.
Irish Need Not Apply.
I know the house, I lived in it, and I never had issues with the landlord ever and it was a clean and cost friendly place to live. What I have heard from people in the town who know the family is that they are not particularly "clean and tidy" people. Of course, this is speculation...
I know the family and the landlord was always there making repairs before this guy moved in. When ever the landlord would send a contractor to the house to make any repairs Thomas Cavanagh would threaten the contractor and not allow anyone into the house. He was just trying to get out of paying rent. Don't be fooled by this joker. Looks like this low life called the paper to looking for a handout from caring people during the holidays. Let' s give our donations to people that really need it not scam artist.
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