Your dear apartment could actually be rented.
This is how Manhattan artist Richard Carroll Jr, who said Gothamist, has been living in a rented apartment for almost two decades. Carroll did not learn the truth while he fought for his lease agreement in court.
When 2004 Carroll moved to his Harlem apartment, his owner entered into a deal for him. According to the court, instead of paying $ 2,000 a month, Carroll paid only $ 1,200.
Carroll had little way to know that the previous tenant had paid less than $ 500 per month.
The eviction report was determined by the discovery of Carroll. Rix Pix – Stock.adobe.com
Online platforms do not always show the full history of the unit – New Yorkers must submit an official record request. Christopher Sadowski
The truth was revealed when 2022. Carroll went to the home court for an eviction report of his landlord who took over the building after Carroll moved inside.
“I was robbed for $ 1,000 a month for 20 years. That’s how I felt,” Carroll Gothamist said.
In the intermediate year, the Carroll apartment entered Total Decay – a broken stove, a rat infection – but it was not behind the lease, which, according to the court, increased to $ 1,425 a month. The owner of the building stated that his lease had expired.
Carroll said Gothamist that he had asked for his division rental story. New Yorkers must submit an official record request to the State Housing and Community Renewal Unit to obtain this information.
Online rental platforms do not always show the whole picture. For example, Carroll’s Building records are just 2022 records of lease transactions.
Uncertainty due to unit status is detrimental to building owners, as well as residents such as Carroll. Google Maps
The records revealed that the Carroll apartment was registered as the lease stabilized in the early 1980s, the Gothamist reports. According to the court’s data, the court -regulated lease was indicated as $ 489.50 in 2002.
Now, the no longer used rental fees for vacant, stabilized units allowed the previous owner to claim that the apartment had been abolished in 2003-Dabartical owner, both in court and claiming that improvements to the previous owner had allowed the annulment of the regulation. Jack Stoller, a home court, ruled that they had not done so.
Disputes about whether the unit is regulated in the rent is common, experts told Gothamist. Uncertainty due to unit status is damaged by both building owners and residents. Investors buying previously leased buildings must rely on the records of its previous owners, but not every buyer performs their own decent inspection.
2004 The law would require the previous Harlem building owner to spend a $ 56,000 renovating unit, Stoller wrote. Dob records Dob records showed the owner issued around $ 22,000.
To publish this information about signs requires urban buildings with rental stable units. Christopher Sadowski
Stoller eventually decided that Carroll was a lease tenant and wrote that the eviction had not been allowed for no reason. The owner of the building appeals to the case.
Earlier this year, a member of the city council Sandy’s nurse passed a new law to prevent stories such as Carroll. The account requires that buildings with rental units be published to publish signs advertising it, with information to find out if your unit is qualified.
“I would never have known,” said Carroll Gothamist. “They would have been able to do something with me, and I would have had to leave and never knew my rights.”
Despite the decision of the dwelling, which is in his favor, Carroll said he did not expect to recover the money. He said he was waiting for a new month to rent. He hopes it is lower.