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March 27, 2009
Referral for a Tenant Lawyer?
Long story short I need a referral for a good landlord/tenant lawyer that reps tenants. This is for an old rental from 2004. The landlord is a crazy bastard and was actually illegally renting me a rent stable apartment 3 times the legal rent (I later found out.) he wants additional money now and I'm going to slap a counter suit on his ass and take him to the cleaners. He has harrassed me numerous times of the past 5 years and I am sick and tired of his crap.
I don't want to pay an arm and a leg but I feel that an seasoned attorney would do better in court than I would myself.
please let me know guys.
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Posted by: mod squad at March 27, 2009 2:54 PM
Adam,
You can start the process by filing a Complaint of Rent Overcharges with the DHCR yourself.
I did that when living in a stabilized apt where the landlord hadn't registered the rent. After several years they DHCR found in my favor, with treble damages. I filed in court and got judgment myself which went against all of the landlord's property. Eventually I got a lawyer to chase the landlord for a settlement when they were being foreclosed on a property different from the one I had lived in. If I had still lived in my old apt I could have lived rent free almost indefinitely.
By the way, in another post, did you say that you live in one place while insuring your car in another? I believe that's what they refer to in that industry as fraud.
Posted by: Bklnite at March 27, 2009 3:00 PM
Wow!
I am sorry to hear of your troubles, Adam.
I have used Brian Zimmet (and the attorneys who work for him) on Third Ave. in midtown phone is 212-922-1330. They did a good job, case was settled out of court.
You can find a ton of landlord tenant lawyers online. I found mine through my legal insurance.
Posted by: mopar at March 27, 2009 3:08 PM
Bklnite- Relax, I moved my insurance over to NJ when the policy was up. I'm good but thanks for dropping the F bomb on a public forum :)
I was willing to let by-gones be by-gones with this crazy bastard but he just can't let it go, so I am going to make an example out of him.
Isn't the statute of limitation of rent overcharge 4 years? So is this why this bastard waited so long to come after me, so I don't have a case? I'm going to call a few of these lawyers and some that I got of tenant.net
Mopar- How much did your guy cost? What kind of legal bill am I looking at?
I'm not worried and this has barely phased me, it just makes me flippin angry that this SOB has the nerve to threaten me. I just need to take the time to go meet with a lawyer and go to court when I can be working.
Posted by: Adam Dahill at March 27, 2009 4:25 PM
One of these days I'll post the whole story, which involves Tranny Hookers, the vice squad, screaming in the middle of the street etc... This case is literally a Law and Order episode. I can probably make a screenplay out of it.
Now get out and enjoy the weather everyone.
-Seacrest Out
Posted by: Adam Dahill at March 27, 2009 4:28 PM
call division housing community renewal. dhcr and ask for the rent overcharge form.
also ask them for a computer print out of the history of the rent for your apartment.
Posted by: Ysabelle at March 27, 2009 6:41 PM
Adam, insurance paid for mine, so I'm not sure. But I doubt it was much more than $800 and could have been a lot less.
Also, just FYI, they seem pretty busy and maybe a little disorganized (seemed like they didn't really have time for me) but once we were in court they were very persuasive. My thing was very fast, a one-time deal.
Posted by: mopar at March 28, 2009 10:14 AM
Stop payng rent and let him take you to court. Let him take the initiative. If he is wrong I don't think he is dumb enough t take you to court. If he is that dumb then you will have a good time in court. You really don't need a lawyer. If you can talk pretty good then the judge will be fine in hearing your case.
Posted by: hannible at March 29, 2009 9:21 AM
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