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October 2, 2009
Broker Rented Us an Illegal Unit
We rented an apt through Corcoran's rental division. They charged us $5000 for their "services". After living in the apartment for less than a month we found out that it was an illegal unit with no Certificate of Occupancy. It wouldn't have been that bad if there was a working oven and working heat... but there wasn't. My question is this, does anyone know if Corcoran needs to uphold to any laws to protect renters from this kind of fraud? They do not want to give us our money back and could not find us a new apartment so we were forced to leave Brooklyn. We don't think they deserve a cent because they should of at least done their due diligence to find us a legal unit. What else are you paying them so much money for. Any help or advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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I am well aware of the heating season laws. We lived in the apartment last Oct/Nov. This was not recent. We have been dealing with this for awhile now. Sorry for not being clear about this. Also we tried to have many of the other violations fixed while we were there but the landlord refused. We even offered to make the repairs ourselves and then she could reimburse us. We really wanted to be able to stay and tried everything we could to make the situation work. Really not a drama queen as one poster suggested. Just wanted to live in a safe/warm environment with our then 5 month old daughter. Thanks to the responders who actually had some advice to give and not just to be rude.
Posted by: oliviasmom at October 19, 2009 10:45 PM in response to Broker Rented Us an Illegal Unit