World's Worst Landlord? (PROJECTILE VOMITING ALERT)

Sky News UK ^ | August 28, 2002 | Sky News UK

[weegee]

I guess that things are complicated by NYC's rent control which alters the lease agreement (compared with other cities).

What happens when someone dies of a shooting, car accident, drug overdose, illness, etc. in NYC?

Is their estate bound to payoff the rental contract?

I thought that the payoff to survivors of the 9/11 attacks was supposed to go to covering expenses from the sudden loss of job/breadwinner.

Are landlords in NYC forbidden from terminating the lease agreement upon death (contract signer is no longer involved in the lease)?

[steve-b]

The family also claim Lyman refused to let them into the apartment to get a hairbrush for a DNA sample to identify any remains. The family finally obtained the sample with the assistance of the police.

Why do I have a hunch that this process involved hints about the next housing-code inspection being done by somebody known around the office as "Old Anal-Retentive"?

[weegee]

That was what I was thinking. Who else was in the running?

[PsyOp]

"...she could've just torn up the contract and re-rented the place. That is, if she had a conscience."

No conscience. She figured since the survivors were going to be getting big money from the charities she'd slice off a piece for herself.

[CdMGuy]

You don't know what you are talking about. In any state, a landlord cannot collect twice for the same rental unit. If I have a one year lease and move out after one month, if the landlord finds a new tenant to move in at the start of month 3, all the landlord suffered as a loss was two months rent plus the cost to find a new tenant, assuming the new tenant paid the same rent. The courts will not let the landlord collect rent from the new tenant and collect a windfall full 12 months rent from the old tenant.

[weikel]

I thought in America you couldn't inherit debt.

[MadIvan]

I thought the title was talking about ALGORE

Oh I'm sure he's in the top 10. ;)

Regards, Ivan