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6 Units and Up???!!! — Brooklynian

6 Units and Up???!!!

annoyed
annoyed
edited November -1 in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy
I am wondering how yall feel about the fact that if there are less than 6 apartments in the building, tenants basically have zero rights regardless of how long they lived there. I feel that this is legislation that is completely unfair and needs to change. How do you feel about this?

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  • anonymous
    anonymous
    Annoyed, is that a trick question; I hope you ain't tryin to start no trouble?
  • annoyed
    annoyed
    guru wrote: Annoyed, is that a trick question; I hope you ain't tryin to start no trouble?
    LOL. No. The question is exactly how the question reads. People who live in buildings with less than 6 apartments have ZERO rights. The landlord can tell them at any time the rent is doubled as of next month or get out or whatever else they want. There are other issues as well like repairs and tenants rights on those. Just doesn't seem fair to me at all.
  • carmen
    carmen
    i bet only white people own buildings with less than 6 units



    zing.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    CARMEN, C'mon you're killin me here, what are you tryin to do? Annoyed, just chill man leave it alone, go inside.
  • annoyed
    annoyed
    guru wrote: CARMEN, C'mon you're killin me here, what are you tryin to do? Annoyed, just chill man leave it alone, go inside.
    I already ignored that ignorance.
  • lemlar
    lemlar
    annoyed, I think you have a few facts wrong there. It may be true that in buildings with fewer than 6 units there are some "exemptions" like rent stabilization. But it is not true that a landlord can just double the rent IF the tenant has a lease. (All tenants should have a lease so that they have the contractual rights that go along with them.) Yes, landlords can double or triple or whatever the rent at the end of the lease period but that's true for all apartments that are not rent controlled or rent stabilized, not just buildings with fewer than 6 units. I also highly doubt that landlords in such buildings have no obligations to make repairs. There may be certain city rules that don't apply but under general common law, there are rules that must be followed, such as what's known as the "warranty of habitability" (whose standards are admittedly pretty low).

    There are pros and cons with respect to "exemptions" for small buildings; I'm sure you can imagine what they might be so I'm not going to list some.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    Not familiar with the laws that you're referring to, but do the laws make sense when looked at from the owner's POV?

    I would imagine that someone that owns a building with fewer units is less likely to be a land baron or a large corporation, thus their income maybe be more severely impacted by 'bad apple' tenants. If someone with a 4 family home happens to get two bad tenants purely by a roll of the dice, do you think that laws would be more likely err on the side of the owner or the side of the tenant? I would guess with the owner as they'll be collecting RE taxes from that owner and they'll want that land-owning investment to continue to be viable.
  • lemlar
    lemlar
    whyfi has it exactly right; that's the primary reason for exempting some small landlords from certain legal obligations. tenants in nyc has very very strong legal rights, even non-rent paying and other "bad apple" tenants. talk to anyone who has ever undertaken eviction proceedings against a tenant. a small landlord could lose his shirt before completing the eviction process. the same rationale simply doesn't apply to corporate landlords.
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