All Forum Posts by: Barbara S.

@Jeshua Patrick, he will not sign a lease agreement, in fact he refuses to sign anything. I just gave him a letter increasing his rent and I asked him to sign the acknowledgment of receipt and he outright refused.  I had to hand deliver the notice to him because he refuses to sign for registered mail when it is delivered to him.  

The door in question is the front door which is the only entrance to the building for all the tenants.  He doesn't care that he is endangering others with his actions, he only cares about himself at this time.  

I have reached out to a couple real estate attorneys hoping they can assist me with an eviction process because I just can't take him anymore.  Besides the doors being unlocked, he has left the gas on his stove on and has flooded the bathroom on numerous occasions damaging the ceiling below. He just doesn't care how his actions affect anyone or anything.  

There is no lease agreement, he is month to month and has been there for 40 years. I assume keeping the front door closed and locked at all times is common sense and doesn’t require to be spelled out. Doesn’t matter if door is self locking, he props it open with umbrella or door mat.

I don’t see the value in buying investment properties in NYC at this point. Prices are ridiculous, tenants that are willing to pay the huge rents tend to pay for a few months and then stop paying. Takes 3-4   months to evict and they destroy the apartment in the meantime. Landlords have no rights. 

I am in queens, and see the market going crazier by the day. 

I don't know what to do. I have a tenant that keeps the front door to my 3 family investment property open all the time. Every time I go there, the door is unlocked or not pushed shut. I confront him all the time on this and he says it isn’t him, even when I have witnessed it with my own eyes. I have asked, begged and yelled about the safety situation and he just doesn’t care. What can I do? 

rent is paid at this time, I am worried about when he goes to a temporary nursing home.

In NYC APS does nothing if the patient wants to return home. They would prefer him to go home and obtain services but they cannot force it upon him. From what I understand the social worker was going to submit paperwork to petition the courts to provide a legal guardian for him, but that takes time. I feel this friend of his helps him just enough so that he appears competent, so that she can continue to manipulate him.  

I have spoken to an attorney friend, he told me regardless of his payment situation no judge wants to go on record for evicting a 90 year old. His advice to me was to make him want to leave on his own, which isn’t working. 

Thank you!

When I say I have tried everything with this man, I am not exaggerating.  I have made phone calls, I have had him evaluated, with the help of his previous caregiver, we arranged for cleaning people, home health aid, nursing, meals on wheels, the list goes on.  

I have arranged for a cleaning person in the past, he let her in once and then accused her of stealing and refused to let her in again, FYI, he was there the entire time watching her and she did not steal anything, she came highly recommended by many of the neighbors. I can't force a cleaning lady on him, and he completely refused the service, I was even willing to pay out of my pocket but he won't let anyone in.  

I don't feel comfortable giving the keys out to just anyone. My elderly mother lives in the building on the ground floor. She has already been a victim of a push in robbery in which he was the person they targeted.  It's a long story but when the perps were arrested they told the detective that the intended target was him. So at this point my main concern is that he doesn't give keys out to anyone.  Can I deny him the right to give keys to caregivers? 

Nathan, I have had this conversation with him many times over the last 5 years. He agrees to XXXX (fill in the blank, go see lawyer, get home health aid, get cleaning person etc) and never follows through with anything.  He will yes me to death just to get off his back and nothing comes through.  His previous "caregiver" gave up on him because of his lies and no longer is in the picture.  

I do not trust this new "friend" that is helping him, I believe this couple is stealing money from him and that is why they want to keep him in the apartment instead of convincing him it is time to go into assisted living.  The social worker from APS agrees there is something fishy with this couple but he hasn't been able to figure it out.  So, with that being said, can I tell this woman and her husband they cannot have keys to the house? 

I have called DPS numerous times, they take him to the hospital and then a rehab/nursing home and within a month he is back home. I was told evicting him is useless, no NYC judge is going to evict a 90 year old man. 

He came home from hospital today, so here we go again. His “friends” now want keys to the building do they can “help” him.  

I am in NYC, have an elderly tenant that should be in a nursing home but refuses to go.  He is alone, no family and a handful of friends that check in on him occasionally.  I have been trying to get him social services for years now, and he flat out refuses their help.  I worry about him falling down the stairs.  I am also concerned that when he passes, I will be stuck with this disaster of an apartment and I have no idea what to do. He is currently in the hospital and will probably be discharged to a rehabilitation center once again.  How do I collect rent from him while he is away? And is there anything I can do to have him "committed" to a nursing home or assisted living? He is in his 90s and is a complete mess.  Has been wearing the same clothing since the summer, hasn't cleaned his apartment since the spring and left the gas on on his stove top last week and showed no remorse or concern for the other tenants in the building.  What should  I do to protect myself?