Non payment of rent
Posted by J.Mannion on May 05, 2000 at 17:13:57:
I live in a co-joined apt.bld.in Queens.It is rent stabilized,with 6 apts.on 1 side and 6 on the other. When I came here,It was with Section 8 housing.There were problems in the apt.but the landlord said he would fix them.When the lease came up for renewal,Section eight cancelled their contract with him,as repairs were not made.They gave me 90 days to find another apt.I did,how- ever the landlord called the new landlord and said I owed a great deal of rent,and was a terrible person.The other landlord did not want to get into a landlord tenant dispute and I had to get my things from the new apt as I had not signed the lease yet,and the landlord cancelled. I stopped paying rent,I thought this would make him take me to court for non-payment of rent.That was 8 years ago.In the mean-time I continued to complain to the city,which on various times because of really bad conditions,fixed some areas,The wall in the kitchen collapsed,they fixed that,The toilet was backing up into the entire area,they fixed that,how-ever the floor in the bath-room was gradually falling, as the many water leaks from up-stairs,and the constant moisture,weakens the main joists.The bath-tub water only goes down if you plunge it several times,and it goes right to the basement under me.The sink is useless,as the wall has pulled away,and pipe cannot hook up to the pipe that goes into the wall.I know you will say,Why didn't I move,I was in extremly dire straits financially,and I began using the money to get to finance my way into a better job.Mean-while I am over 16 thousand dollars in debt and cannot move.I have not gone into no heat, hot water etc.No working oven,I had to buy a refrigerator etc.The city has finally moved to get him to repair the apt.I just came from a meeting with the city atty.He listened to the landlord insult and demean and threaten me and seemed to understand that muc
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