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taras1 — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:45:55 +0000

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Landlord expecting payment for water charge
Friday, May 3rd, 2013 6:10 pm
Posted By: taras1

I have a large custom 2 family house in a boro of NYC. I reside in one apartment with my son. I rent the other large apartment to a couple for a few years now with a Lease. The 2 year Lease was renewed last year for another 2 years. I have one large water heater and one water meter. I got talked down in rent when they moved in they seemed nice. I did request an estimated water payment of $25.00 and in the Lease. Lease states water charge can change at anytime deemed necessary due to Water Board increase or usage. Note: there are 2 tenants in the rental apt, and 2 people in my apt. also. What I did is take the 4 previose water bills, which I have had 2 people in the rental apt. also, add them together and devided it in half. then devided it by 12 to get estimate of water use for each apartment. I do not want to cheat my tenants. In the Lease there is a clause stating they can’t bring another person to live in there apartment. About 6 weeks ago they had a baby. At this point I requested a $12.50 estimated increase for an additional person water use. Yes it is a baby, but they have a washer and dryer in the basement. There has been lots of small washes of baby clothes, I am not sure if they adjust water levels or not for the wash. I do not think this is important to them. My tenants claim they do not have to pay for water for a baby, it doesn’t use much water. Well I disagree with that, The baby is here about 6 weeks now and I received a water bill that was for the last 3 months and I compaired it to same months but for previouse year and found the new bill is $45.00 more than the last years bill for same period regarding weather conditions. On top of this there has also been a 7% water increase that I have no control of. My Tenant has refused to pay the additional water that I am requesting. I believe this baby is a person and I should have the right to add additional water charge and due to water estimated use. If a baby doesn’t count as a person that uses water equally, then just when does a person count as someone that uses water. Tenant said doesn’t use same amount of water as an adult. Didn’t pay the 7% water increase also. Kind of acused me of ripping them off and they are now banging the door when the baby is not sleeping. They painted the apartment a dark color even though it was in the lease they can’t paint until I give them letter approving of light color they picked. She works in the house even though the Lease states can not use apartment for a business. When they received an increase after 2 years I was to demand security to match the rent as per lease and let it go to be nice. Does anyone know what my rights are in NYC area regarding this with a 2 family house. Note this is stupid due to I am willing to make adjustments either way to adjust there correct water charge. I believe I have the right to charge water for a third person. Lease doesn’t state anything about a 3 person or baby but it says I have the right to adjust water charge at anytime deemed necessary. I have always been nice, maybe to nice. This house does not bring in a profit at all. I keep adding money back in and also whatever I can afford to fix everything I can all over the house including the tenants apartment. There is no government agency that could help me I would appreciate your response. Thanks so much. Just would like to say, it is too bad that tenants do not understand a good landlord that tries to takes care of things, and always looking to fix whatever needs to be fixed as much as money allows and pays high insurance and taxes does not make anything at all. I also work to do many things myself so I would have money to do the things I can’t do. I do not understand why I get treated like I am getting rich. I work so hard in this house also. It would be easier to be a tenant than what I do. And I am getting older getting hard, but still trying. Thanks.

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Abiona — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:27:04 +0000

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Mary Adele Philips — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:31:42 +0000

On March 28, 2013, I signed a lease with a couple whose house I wanted to rent. I paid an earnest money contract on the home to hold it in the amount of $100 and then paid an additional $2,400 for rent and deposit. The move-in date was scheduled for April 15. I never moved into the dwelling in any way, but started preparations for the move by a more thorough review of the house. This is where I found problem after problem, including the fact that the pool company I was going to hire to maintain the pool explained to me that the pool had more work neede, than was stated by landlord. After seeing that the "rental" of this house was going to include an exorbinant amount of work that was not known at the time of the lease, I contacted by phone and then emailed the landlord to tell them (it’s a couple) that I would not be moving in and to return my money. They have now said that with a signed lease, I’m not entitled to my deposit or first month’s rent. Is this true? What is my recourse, and how to handle this issue without having to spend as money and time that What are the laws?

Tenant wants landlord to pay past utility bills when they didn’t notify landlord of issue

Todicus — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:41:05 +0000

My tenant received very high electricity bills for the past few months. They did not notify me until January 11. I had the unit inspected and found that the heat pump was stuck on. I had the unit repaired and in good working order on January 19th.

I offered to pay for the entire utility bill from the 11th to the 19th, while it was being repaired. I also offered to pay for half of their December bill.

They have refused and are not paying rent, and want me to pay for all their past utility bills where they felt it was eccessive.

Please advise….

Thank you

Evicting a tenant who lied about bedbug infestation

anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:56:56 +0000

We have a tenant (on retirement) (let’s call him George) who 2 years ago lied about the bed bug infestation in his apartment and even screamed and refused to allow the exterminator we hired then to fix the problem. The exterminator did his part with the other apartments and we thought we took care of the situation. This past year a tenant complained about bed bugs. We took this seriously and hired the exterminator again.

Our building is a 6 family that we take care of ourselves. We know our tenants, most of the apartments are renovated, and we do our best to keep the building clean and fix any problems that arrive quickly.

This past month another tenant had complained about a bed bug problem. We realized that this can not be an isolated incident. So we had the exterimnator come again, except this time we wanted for all the apartments to be exterminated. George was difficult and refused to allow the exterminator that we have been working with to enter his apartment. We comprised and found another exterminator. When we saw the state of George’s apartment we realized why he felt uncomfortable letting someone in. He is a bit of a hoarder. Exterminator #2 said that nearly everything had to go from George’s apartment, that it had spread to all the walls of the apartment. The infestation was so bad you could easily see the bed bugs. After we agreed to pay for a new mattress for George and that the extermination team will do an extentive extermination without throwing out all his things, he agreed.

Now George wants us to pay for his hotel room while the extermination took place but the worst part is that the infestation is still there. And another tenant has complained. Mind you, we paid for the exterimination and it is expensive. Something like this could have been taken care of 2 years ago at a lesser expense and hopefully it would not have affected any of our other tenants.

Can we evict this tenant in NYC? How long will this take?

Bed bugs are hard to get rid of. In order to accomplish this, the apartment has to be gutted becasue the bugs are in the walls and we have to exterminated it again and all the other apartments. This man is a bit of a hoarder and not cleanly. i know every effort will be pointless if all the possibly hiding places are not cleared and it will take us some time to completey rid our building of the bed bugs. I’m worried that the infestation will get worst and spread to all the walls and apartments. Please help with any informtion. We are worried about our building and our tenants health.

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Dangerous Dogs at Large-

memphisrain — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:52:02 +0000

I moved in my new apartment a few months ago with a year’s lease and a Section 8 Housing Voucher. After dealing with having food thrown at me from the third floor apartment on a regular basis, an explosion and fire at a neighboring apartment, countless police activity and a pitbull that is allowed to run loose for hours on the property, I am asking to get out of my lease and have written the company requesting they do so. I also notified them weeks ago that I wanted them to try and rent the apartment and they have ignored all my requests. Aren’t they supposed to be trying to rent the apartment and are they legally bound to abide by city ordinance and do something about a dangerous dog at large, continually, on the property (that belongs to a resident?) I am moving and can’t even stay there–do I have recourse for them to let me out of the lease?

Can the landlords do this??

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