Sentences with phrase «of apartment landlord»

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Vancouver - based RentMoola has signed up 100,000 apartments - worth of landlords in Canada and the U.S. since its inception.

He wrote, in a May 14 report, that the company was one of the few apartment landlords to increase its net operating income by 5 % year - over-year.

But what makes it different than an apartment in, say, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is that in the eyes of Dutch tax collectors, owning that home means the Van de Klunderts became landlords.

This service matches up tens of thousands of home and apartment owners / landlords with guests looking for accommodations for between 30 days and up to one year.

If you make changes to the apartment without the landlord's consent, they could use your security deposit to pay for the costs of returning the property to its original condition.

A standard lease states the landlord is required to release the money within 30 to 60 days after you vacate the property if you've met all of your obligations, such as making all rent payments, moving out of the apartment on time, returning the property in good condition, etc..

It can hurt your chances of a landlord approving you to lease an apartment or even affect your job search.

That could pose challenges for apartment landlords, who are bracing this year for one of the largest infusions of new rental supply in three decades.

My returns are the results of not investing in the stock market (exited 3/09), no P2P lending (there has been a shortage of borrowers and an oversupply of institutional money to lend when i was looking into it) but i am a landlord of a couple of apartments with my brother and my own private lending (both ROTH IRA and non-IRA).

The landlord of a federally subsidized apartment complex where 80 tenants were forced to evacuate just before Hurricane Irma struck is in legal trouble with the city of Miami.

Instead of wasting time with these frivolous lawsuits, I wish the American Atheists would take issue with employers who require all workers to participate in group prayer (as one of my former employers did) or landlords who «casually» ask about your religion before they will rent you an apartment (that's life in the Bible Belt, eh?).

If such is truly the case (s) then each of our body - buildings has a landlord or God and this landlord / God does lease this body called building apartments out to those who are in need of residencies!

A group of about 60 apartment tenants is suing one of New York City's largest landlords, alleging that Stellar Management illegally overcharged tenants for four years.

In a rare victory for landlords, the New York Court of Appeals ruled they had acted properly in pushing up rents when they converted thousands of regulated apartments to market - rate units.

The Assembly also did not use the expiration of those two programs as a way to strengthen rent regulations to try to stop the hemorrhage of rent - stabilized apartments or put the brakes on mechanisms that landlords use to raise stabilized rents to unaffordable levels.

Kavanagh appeared at the Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association meeting, focusing his remarks on legislation to repeal loopholes in the rent laws, like his bills, passed in the Assembly, to reform the system of major capital improvement (MCI) charges that are added to rent bills and to eliminate «vacancy bonuses» landlords get when tenants leave their apartments.

Other things the landlords wanted, but didn't get, were a longer time - frame for the rent - regulations extension (a full eight years, versus the four they got), and legislation that would address the 2009 Court of Appeals decision on Roberts v. Tishman Speyer, which ruled that apartments could not be deregulated if they received J - 51 incentives for property improvements.

And landlords will now only be able to increase rent for individual apartment improvements one sixtieth, versus one fourtieth, the cost of the improvement, though only in buildings with 36 or more units, something landlords claim will worsen housing conditions for tenants.

Further, landlords strenuously opposed the tenant - friendly increase of decontrol thresholds — the amount of monthly rent above which apartments can go market rate, from $ 2,000 a month to $ 2,500, and the raising of the tenant - income limit from $ 175,000 to $ 200,000.

They «included the creation of a Tenant Protection Unit that protects rents from unscrupulous landlords and returned more than 37,000 unlawfully deregulated apartments to rent regulation.

Come Home NYC will coordinate with the city's Department of Homeless Services to identify shelter families earning an average of $ 35,000 a year or more, help locate an affordable apartment for them and use the funds from the attorney general's office and $ 300,000 from the Robin Hood Foundation provide the landlord with a $ 3,000 deposit to off - set potential rent shortfalls.

Mr. Rangel spoke to the Observer shortly after addressing a rally for more tenant - friendly rent stabilization — including the elimination of preferential rents, preventing landlords from removing vacant apartments from the rent control program and making charges for major capital improvements temporary rather than a permanent — in his native Harlem.

The landlord claimed it was done after several instances of non-payment, which the tenants dispute; but ultimately, it led to the tenants leaving the apartment they'd occupied for more than five years.

Finally, it also makes important changes to the way improvements are calculated and verified for individual apartments, which will reduce a landlord's ability to abuse these renovations as a tool to force units out of regulation.

Cuomo is right that de Blasio's plan would be a boon to landlords in at least one respect: The mayor, to try to spur construction of cheaper apartments, proposes extending the 421 - a tax abatement from the current 15 or 25 years to 35 years.

Mr. Cuomo said that the agreement will raise the threshold at which a landlord may remove apartment from the rent control program from the current ceiling of $ 2,500 a month.

That law allows landlords to take vacant apartments out of regulation when the next tenant's rent will exceed $ 2,500.

Mr. Kavanagh, a Democrat who represents the East Side of Manhattan, said the vacancy allowance had risen to the top of tenants» demands because it also helped landlords surpass the $ 2,700 threshold that allowed them to take an apartment out of rent stabilization.

627 is a much - needed legislation that seeks to protects tenants from being harassed by landlords who are looking to kick them out of their apartments.

They called for the elimination of a loophole that lets landlords boost rent by 20 percent when tenants vacate a rent - stabilized apartment, as well as a rule that removes units from rent regulations once the rent gets high enough, allowing units to go to market - rate prices.

A class - action lawsuit has been filed by the Legal Aid Society on behalf of tenants in two Sunset Park apartment buildings who alleged that the landlord discriminated against them and made them prove citizenship before agreeing to renew their leases.

The activists have called for changes to rent regulations to stop or slow the process of vacancy decontrol, under which landlords can remove apartments from regulation when rents cross a certain threshold.

The head of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers and leader of more than 11,000 employees serving about 178,000 apartments in nearly 2,600 buildings, believes that the future of public housing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its early years.

In the past, legislators and governors have used the sunset date to shift the balance from tenants to landlords, with what's known as vacancy decontrol, once the monthly price of an apartment and the tenants» income reach a certain threshold.

Golden has at times insisted that the problem of vacancy decontrol — where landlords claim to make repairs to vacant apartments to price them out of rent control — is not a real problem in his district but instead a worry for Manhattan legislators.

TPU served a comprehensive subpoena on an East Village landlord who has allegedly engaged in the harassment of Spanish - speaking tenants in order to force them out of their rent - regulated apartments.

Though she considers herself fortunate to live in a rent - stabilized apartment, she said that her landlord has been on a campaign of harassment so that her apartment could be remodeled and rented at twice the current price.

Among those listed were: high rents, lack of housing stock, failure of landlords to maintain apartments and make repairs when needed, etc..

The details of the so - called «framework» are as follows: much to the dismay of die - hard tenant - advocates, vacancy decontrol is staying, and landlords will still be allowed to deregulate apartments when tenants» monthly rent and annual household income reach certain thresholds.

«A rent freeze on the surface may sound pro-tenant, but the reality is landlords will now have to forgo repairing, maintaining and preserving their apartments, which will trigger the deterioration of quality, affordable housing de Blasio pretends to care about,» stated Joseph Strasberg, president of the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents 25,000 landlords throughout the city.

The Times profiles Jacob Selechnik, a Bronx - landlord who's looking to add to his already massive portfolio of apartment buildings.

At 9:30 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James holds a news conference before touring two apartment buildings included in her office's list titled «The 100 Worst Landlords in New York City» released Wednesday, Oct. 8, as part of her series of «six month check - in» visits to properties on the list, 14 E. 125th St., Manhattan.

Landlords of rent - regulated buildings, however, rely on raising rent 20 percent in vacant units to recoup the losses they have acquired by subsidizing other apartments for years without adequate rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated apLandlords of rent - regulated buildings, however, rely on raising rent 20 percent in vacant units to recoup the losses they have acquired by subsidizing other apartments for years without adequate rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated aplandlords of rent - regulated apartments.

The residents of 510 W. 218th St. were allowed to return home on Christmas Eve after the their landlord Hakim Azizi made repairs to eight of 13 apartments that needed new windows, doors and locks, according to Martin Collins, community liaison for City Councilman Robert Jackson.

«I'm one of those guys with a shitty landlord,» said Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, who lives in a rent - regulated apartment in the Bronx.

Mr. de Blasio stressed that he would not be satisfied with a simple extension of the existing regulations, but called for preventing landlords from removing vacant apartments from the rent control program and from increasing the rent 20 percent on stabilized apartments once they become unoccupied.

A small handful of landlords, including the owner of a Bronx building where two infants were killed last week in a radiator accident, account for an outsized share of dangerous violations in the city's private - apartment program for homeless families.

Meanwhile landlords have an incentive to lie about the pricetag of renovations on vacant apartments to artificially raise the value of the unit.

Instead, he launched a series of ever - more outlandish claims, suggesting, for example, that his landlord (Dale Hemmerdinger, a Spitzer donor and now former MTA board chairman) let someone into his apartment — perhaps man of many voices, Randy Credico?

Bill A168 would limit a landlord's ability to claim apartments for the use of their family.