Illegal Washer Dryer
My rent controlled tenant has installed a washer dryer. This is causing sinks to back up, creates noise to the tenants below her, and could cause a massive flood if it overlowed. Anyone have any tips on how I can get her to remove it. I’ve already given her a letter explaining why I want…
My rent controlled tenant has installed a washer dryer. This is causing sinks to back up, creates noise to the tenants below her, and could cause a massive flood if it overlowed. Anyone have any tips on how I can get her to remove it. I’ve already given her a letter explaining why I want it removed but she simply refuses. I’d prefer not to just consult a lawyer. thx.
OP: I didn’t really want to debate the tax issue. I wanted to give you some advice. Don’t worry, it won’t happen again.
It is time to break open the pamela coleman smith tarot deck to solve the problem!
At least you get to look at good artwork.
If your tenant is on ssi you have no case not even a pillowcase.
If your tenant is on ssi you have no case not even a pillowcase.
So after all this hot air.
Step 1, Serve Notice to cure, really as a way to just threaten them with eviction for violation of the lease, 15 day-stop or, next step. They laugh or scream in your face!
Step 2, Notice to evict, they wake up and call housing (on speed dial of course) and they tell you that because NY Sate protects Tenants better than landlords that you have no right to serve papers on them in the first place or you stated 15 days, not 25 as the small print defines as the correct, legal way to do this. Huh?Landlord you loose to remove.
Step 3, you can charge them per month, about 14 bucks for the use of a washer, a totally legal fee, has nothing to do with their RC status, they refuse to pay of course and you. . .
Step 4, Notice to evict for non payment of a perfectly legal fee that you are allowed to collect as the owner of the building! (DHCR Operational Bulletin 2005-1)
HA!
How’s that for out side the box?
9:52 writes “First of all, tenants do pay taxes.”
No sh*t Sherlock, but did you read what I wrote? I wrote “landlords of course, who pay taxes as opposed to my tenant who doesn’t”. I know for a fact that my tenant has been on public assistance her whole life. OK? She does not and has never paid taxes. You would have to be an idiot to claim all the tenants in NY are not paying taxes. There are some very wealthy people who rent, some even have rent regulated apartments.
So I stand by my comments, my taxes are being used to support lawyers to be used against me, whereas my tenant, who has never paid taxes, gets free legal representation to protect her subsidized apartment. Of course the subsidy is my responsibility not the city’s. I’m the one losing money every month.
Do you honestly think this is a fair situation? Please explain why.
Ysabelle,
So you’re a landlord, huh? I put as much credence in that as in your profile (migrating between interior decorator and writer, living in a rental but asking questions about renovations in your “condo”). Being a landlord with tenants (plural) and coming up with questions and statements that display virtually no understanding of running and maintaining a building is so incompatible it defies belief.
OP: First of all, tenants do pay taxes. They may not pay your real estate taxes, but they do generally pay income taxes. Second, the pro se attorneys at Housing Court do exist to help tenants, not landlords. When landlords hire lawyers–as many here have suggested that you do, too–the cost of those attorneys is a business expense that will lower the taxes on your profits from this building. (I am assuming that you make a profit on the building.)
My suggestion would be to contact the Rent Stabilization Association. Despite the name, this is a landlord organization. They might be able to help you. But I do believe that you’re going to have to hire a lawyer, or at the very least actually pay to have a consultation with one.
Ysabelle…Washing machines DO NOT usually run on 220 V…they run on 110.
To the OP…if all else fails and you’re stuck with the washer there just make sure you have installed the type of water connection/shutoff that will shutoff the water in case of a leak…Google washer shutoffs or go to This Old House site and you will find different types of setups. Essentially the system can detect when there’s water flowing and the washer is not on and shut the water off.