Apartment Rentals in New York City – what you need to know.
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Though the heated eviction battle over the Carnegie Hall studios is over, not all of the former tenants are ready to forget about their longtime homes.
Landlords are leery of tenants who have been evicted, because the assumption is that you won’t pay rent or you’ll damage the apartment. But, it’s not impossible to rent with an eviction record.
Q. I sublet an apartment from a guy who said he was renting from the owner. I have since discovered that the apartment is rent-stabilized, that the person I was renting from was a sub-tenant of the tenant on the lease, and that the stabilized rent is half of what I’m paying. After having problems with the hot water, I…
Landlords in New York cannot evict tenants without court intervention, and that the only way to recover the apartment is to start an eviction proceeding in New York City Housing Court against the tenants.