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Posted by chelsea on March 07, 2001 at 11:29:01:

In Reply to: Re: landlord wants tax return posted by Lurker-Owner on March 06, 2001 at 17:15:39:

It's always a seller's market in NYC; that's why we have rent regulation. And that's why landlords get away with saying things like:
"We don't take gambles on tenants who have EVER been sued by their landlord." Why rule out a potential tenant who may just have had a bad landlord? Might as well reject people who have had parking tickets, or who come from Wisconsin, or who have had a bad case of the flu. Sounds to me like a threat to discourage tenants from exercising their rights.

: 2. The reason landlords check references, credit reports, landlord-tenant court records, etc., is not so much that it is a seller's market (though it may be) but that it is next to impossible to evict a bad tenant. Accordingly, to keep down the cost in money and time of going to court -- particularly with stabilized apartments -- we don't take gambles on people who have EVER been sued by their landlord, people who have been self-employed for less than three year, people who have been late more than once with their credit cards, people who have more than 10 credit cards, etc.

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• Ignore Chelsea Real Estate Mogul 03/10/01 (1)
  • Yeah! Just ignore me, landlords! chelsea 03/10/01 (0)
• ... Especially when there are 10 applicants for each apartment (nt) MikeW 03/08/01 (0)
• Re: checking records Lurker-Owner 03/08/01 (2)
  • Re: checking records chelsea 03/08/01 (0)
  • LL's are very foolish sometimes rs tenant 03/08/01 (0)

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: It's always a seller's market in NYC; that's why we have rent regulation. And that's why landlords get away with saying things like:
:  "We don't take gambles on tenants who have EVER been sued by their landlord."  Why rule out a potential tenant who may just have had a bad landlord?  Might as well reject people who have had parking tickets, or who come from Wisconsin, or who have had a bad case of the flu.  Sounds to me like a threat to discourage tenants from exercising their rights. 

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: : 2.  The reason landlords check references, credit reports, landlord-tenant court records, etc., is not so much that it is a seller's market (though it may be) but that it is next to impossible to evict a bad tenant.  Accordingly, to keep down the cost in money and time of going to court -- particularly with stabilized apartments -- we don't take gambles on people who have EVER been sued by their landlord, people who have been self-employed for less than three year, people who have been late more than once with their credit cards, people who have more than 10 credit cards, etc.


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