Landlord Tenant
by Connie Brzowski
| December 1, 2007
The mister and I waited years before buying our first rent house. Of all the various and sundry reasons for staying out of the game, our biggest obstacle was a severe case of Tenant-phobia– the crippling fear of Landlording. To make matters worse, anytime the subject came up, helpful friends and relatives regurgitated the [...]
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Landlord Tenant
by Joshua Dorkin
| March 21, 2007
If you can’t get rid of them, raise their rent . . .
Sometimes we end up in a situation where tenants aren’t the wonderful people we hope that they are. They throw out of control parties, damage the property, litter the property, have 10 people stay in the 2 br apartment, pay rent late, [...]
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Landlords vs. Tenants
by Bea Chenowitz | December 15, 2006An article in the Sunday issue of the New York Times (“A House Divided: Uncivil War on E. 73rd Street,” December 10, 2006) describes a dispute between a landlord and an unhappy tenant in a tony Upper East Side brownstone of New York City. A battle like that is always a case of someone’s word [...]