Footage from 357 4th Street Condo Lawsuit
Holy crap! We were just sent the link to a video the plaintiffs in the Corcoran lawsuit made a couple of years ago to document the flooding problems in their newly purchased condo at 357 4th Street. Corcoran Found Negligent in Park Slope Condo Sale [Brownstoner] State Supreme Court Rules Corcoran “Negligent” [TRD] E-mail Shows…
Holy crap! We were just sent the link to a video the plaintiffs in the Corcoran lawsuit made a couple of years ago to document the flooding problems in their newly purchased condo at 357 4th Street.
Corcoran Found Negligent in Park Slope Condo Sale [Brownstoner]
State Supreme Court Rules Corcoran “Negligent” [TRD]
E-mail Shows Couple’s Suit vs. Corcoran Group Holds Water [NYDN]
Re the mold, there won’t be much if any. Reason is, the developer already knew the place flooded. Why? He didn’t use standard wallboard, according to the story, he used wonderboard. And there’s a reason he put that ceramic tile down. If he thought that space was nice and dry and tight, he would have put down a nice wood floor.
Moral: Never buy a below-grade living space with tile. The person put it there for a reason, which is that when it floods you can just mop it up. And it will flood, that’s why it’s there in the first place!
Yes, IMBY, there is one clear WINNER here…the lawyer.
So the judge awarded them $35,000 to cover the legal fees they were charged to get Corcoran to finally turn over Emails that may or may not prove there was some broker conspiracy. True? And the case is still in the discovery phase, no?
I know of a few condo buildings in the SSlope with water problems, some as bad as the ones in this video. Any good lawyer is going to find a way to recover damages for their client including looking to see if the seller/broker knew about these floods before.
With all this new construction the city’s infrastructure is certainly being taxed. You can’t add 40-80 new units to a street and not expect backups like the one you see in the video.
In the web site photos the garden duplex has a backyard that is completely cemented over with nowhere for the water to go but that 4″ drain.
Mold will develop if the area is wet for three days. It will be all over the surface of the drywall. You won’t have to guess if it’s there — you will see it. It costs thousands to remove it and replace it with new drywall. This is after you pay to stop the flood problem, of course. Another reason not to live in a basement.
snappy- cosmetic fix ups can be done very fast. Problem is they don’t fix the issue, nor last. It would have been relatively easy to hide this problem just for apartment showings.
Wow, that’s pretty awful. Seems like there would have been a waterline mark on the walls, or mold. Good luck to the owners.
Heartbreaking for the owners. Extremely sobering for any potential buyers of anything in Brooklyn. What a nightmare.
For those of you who missed it on the previous thread, the Corcoran posting, proudly bragging the condo’s sold status!
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=877070
For those of you in the know, how could this happen? It looks like there is no drainage whatsoever — except what drains into the house.
Note: this is not defending Corcoran or the builder.
But, there was a massive amount of flooding on that day. I remember all of the drains backing up in PS and PH, my house included:
Here’s a link
http://bk.ly/0t
“an incompetent dumbass”
Is that the technical legal term?
Can you say that in Latin for me…slowly, while you’re peeling a grape and feeding it to me in your toga???