All Forum Posts by: Cynthia Brooks

Sooooo....no one else is interested in fighting against injustice of these eviction moratoriums? Because I haven't heard from anyone.

Looking for Owners to Patriciate in a Potential Eviction Moratorium Challenge:

SPONY has been asked to help coordinate a potential challenge to the eviction moratorium. In order for this effort to move ahead, property owners who have been impacted by the eviction moratorium will need to share their stories. For example: Were you issued a warrant issued prior to COVID? Do you have any existing eviction/summary proceeding cases that commenced prior to December 2020, whether pre- or post- pandemic? Do you have a tenant not residing in the unit & not paying rent? We are looking particularly for cases where tenants are taking advantage of the situation created by the pandemic, who are otherwise able to pay rent and are not paying simply because they can.

If you have been severely impacted by the eviction moratorium or know anyone else who has, please contact me with the subject line: “Eviction Moratorium Challenge” then I send you email address you need to send your stort to. I am prevented from providing the email address on this posting.

WE SMALL LANDLORDS NEED TO FIGHT AGAINST THIS INJUSTICE AGAINST US...THIS IS A WAY TO DO IT1 It's time for people to start hearing the LAndlord's side of the story. No one is going to help us until we start helping ourselves by getting our stories out. PLEASE PARTICIPATE... let the world know what is happening to us. We are not the rich, greedy, money grubbing slumlords they try to portray us as. We arde honest, hard working, trying to mkae our communities alittle better for our families, average Joe citizens. Share your story, not just amoung other landlords but to the people who make the decisions that affect our rental businesses...they need to hear them. PLEASE PARTICIPATE . THANK YOU.

Avoid low income housing.....do not deal with the City housing programs!! BEWARE!!

Even if you prove it , doesnt mean anything. The debt collection laws are so weak probably wont get back rent owed. While we are battling these eviction moratorium we need to be working to add TEETH to consumer debt collection laws.  

I would give them the option of an early termination of lease. 

Hello BP,

Just wondering why (Brooklyn, NY) housing courts are not dispensing with holdover cases.

I have holdover tenant ( case started and settled pre-covid) who was suppose to be moved out by 6/30/20 as per settlement signed by the court. I even have a "good" warrant being held by the NYC Marshall office but the New York City courts are still not allowing Marshall's or Sheriffs to serve warrants of eviction. This has nothing to do with nonpayment of rent BUT of course tenant stopped paying rent 2 months ago. I havent even filed for that because I dodnt want any delay in getting them out as quick as possible. I figure I will deal with that in small claims court.

Do any NYC landlords know if courts are allowing holdover evictionsvto go forward?

O.K.

Hello BP,

I have been reading a lot of articles about the concerns of renters and landlords when the various eviction moratorium expire, but its seem to me landlords also need to be concerned with changing the consumer debt collection law. We as landlords need nore favorable laws in order to have any chance of collecting any of the back rent that will be owed. As of 2017, judgements are no longer reported on credit reports. You basically can only collect wage income and if the tenant doesn't have a job your out of luck. In addition, if you do find an account to garnish it has to have over a certain amount before you can garnish any funds from it. You can't garnish welfare, social security, child support, social service assistance funds, retirement accounts...but the "deadbeat" tenant will cost you your retirement funds and deplete your financial assets. Mind you, I dont want to see anyone financially devastated by taking away their life saving but I also dont want someone to drastically alter mine. Im just saying besides worrying about expiring eviction moratorium we as landlords need to worry about the laws governing the collecting of the debt.

Good man...learn from my mistakes.