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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Marty Silverman 212 219 2100. A good tenant advocate.