Sentences with phrase «fines against landlords»

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

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State Senator Espaillat touted his record against Pinnacle and Vantage property owners, reminding tenants that he involved then - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office ultimately fined the landlords over $ 1 million for their bad practices.

Tenants may be quick to check all the boxes saying everything is fine, and landlords will use that against a tenant later or when a request for repair is made.

-- The lease is devoid of clauses that are required in order to properly protect a landlord, tracking the wording and protecting against traps that lie in wait in the fine print of the Residential Tenancies Act.