All Forum Posts by: Kenneth Cook

I am looking for an attorney who is experienced with handling squatter situations in Fulton, NY.

Hello,

I currently have a 4 family house in Fulton, NY.  One of my units has about 20+ people in and out of the unit at all times.  I went to court and got an eviction for the actual tenants.  The warrant did not include "all others" or anything along those lines.

So now I am being told I have to evict each person.  They will not give me their names so this is not possible.

The actual tenant had national grid come and turn off gas and electric.  

City keeps writing me up and fining me.  Telling me I need to resolve the issue or they are going to be "coming down hard on me".
Judge will not allow the anything along the lines of and all occupants.
Police will not remove anyone even though none of them live in the house they just go in and buy drugs.

I called and left a message for the mayor today but I am out of ideas.  

Can anyone please help me with ideas for how I can take back MY property.

I have recently purchased a couple rental properties in two different cities about 20 mins apart. The first one I bought was a 4 unit. I closed on this property in November of 2020. Second one, a single family college rental in June of 21.

The 4 unit I purchased, I have had a problem with since I bought it. One of the tenants has allowed 10-20 people to live there, the police and emts are called to the unit on a regular basis do to overdoses (Good Samaritan law keeps them from getting in trouble for this). They leave garbage and debris all over the place. Furniture and shopping carts. They are a known drug house.

With COVID, even though the eviction ban in NY is for failure to pay rent, no lawyers would take an eviction case, and courts were not opened until recently.

The city has stopped picking up garbage at the residence, but continues to charge me for garbage removal. So now I am having to have someone else pick up the garbage and take it to the dump.

I have multiple open citations/warnings about having "x cleaned up" Its usually garbage cans, old furniture, tires, think pretty much anything that is an eye soar. I understand this, and understand it is my responsibility.

I finally got the sheriff’s office to issue a 90day notice to vacant in December.

Today I received a letter that states my rental permit has been revoked due to having any open violations in the first 5 years. To get a new permit is going to be $500 for reinstatement of a revoked permit. I just got the rental permit approved a few months ago to begin with.

I feel that if the city doesnt allow me to evict the tenants, who I dont even want to evict for failure to pay rent, but because they are on a month to month, I have no way to correct the problem.

Is this something I should try to get a lawyer involved with? What are my options here.

I have zero problems with the other property. No violations no nothing. Its smooth running and the tenants are clean etc. I understand the city trying to "clean up" even though this street has been a bad run down area for the better part of two decades. I found out after I bought it, although I did have a feeling. First property live and learn.

Should I contact the media as I feel like in reality this is just a form of legalized extortion?

Thanks for both responses and yes I would be interested.

I may be interested in taking out a hard money loan for a BRRRR deal. I'm having trouble finding any that will fund a 30k purchase price.

I also do not have an LLC

Does anyone know of any?  The property is located in Oswego NY.

I have made many first purchase. A 4 unit house that I will be moving into one of the units.

Two of the tenants have had communication with me and everything is going well. Both of them have expressed concerns about the third tenant.

I have spoke with local PD and Drug task force and they are aware of the tenants and have history with them.

This tenant has not responded to my phone calls/text or multiple knocks on the door. They have even put up a very vulgar sign saying don’t knock on the door.

They also have not paid rent.

I have no lease for them, I am under the impression that the year lease they signed would have ended on October, so they would be on a month to month.

I would like to serve them notice to end the month to month lease and have them vacant the property.

In NY, like most states we can not evict for failure to pay rent currently. We should be able to for other reasons.

My issue is that housing courts aren’t open to handle any type of evictions.

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

I am curious if anyone is involved or knows of any class action suits against the moratorium in NY. I know several other states have begin some of these processes with the base of government turning private property into free living.

I agree, but that does not help with what my next step would be if there is any.

Realtor has been reaching out to previous owner.  He still has them packed away allegedly.

If the tenant doesn’t have a copy and I don’t have a copy the. Technically no lease exists now?

I purchased my first rental property. I have not received a copy of the leases the tenants have from the previous owner.

When I asked during the closing process he sent me a 39 page lease. I did not notice it was only for the one unit. (My fault).

Now the other three units I don’t have a lease, don’t know when they expire etc.

I have asked the realtor and the lawyer and neither have been able to produce for me. I wanted to know what my options were before I go to the tenants and say hey I don’t know what your lease says..

Any suggestions?

I am interested in obtaining a real estate license in the state of NY.

Can anyone suggest the best place to take the 75 hour course?