tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post5310010361739570758..comments2024-03-29T09:08:56.746-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Petition asks Madison Realty Capital to waive legal fees for evicted East Village familyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-14732980612731932782018-08-16T11:30:17.816-04:002018-08-16T11:30:17.816-04:00Those who are outraged by this, please sign our pe...Those who are outraged by this, please sign our petition. (The link is in the last line of the blog post.) Unlike many online petitions that have so broad a scope that the issue seems daunting and signing seems useless (ie, Demand That Plastic Straws Be Outlawed!), this one is more pragmatic. It is part of an active, local campaign to get this hedge fund to waive this debt. If you are interested in helping further, please contact us via our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/TenantsTakingControl/a Madison Realty Capital tenant a few blocks awayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17808205203629307494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-50780860656524767732018-08-15T20:43:26.312-04:002018-08-15T20:43:26.312-04:00Since this was decided in an appelate court and su...Since this was decided in an appelate court and supreme court in Albany, another question should be asked to the now reborn progressive (fauxgressive) hero of the downtrodden Gov. Andrew Cuomo, another political neoliberal whore dancing, mincing and writhing for the REBNY overlords.<br /><br />These monopoly playing predatory real estate krackens are really asking for a war. JQ LLChttps://impunitycity.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-54326537244839618022018-08-15T19:01:01.052-04:002018-08-15T19:01:01.052-04:00This is shocking. That clause might have made some...This is shocking. That clause might have made some sense when our buildings were owned by individual landords who had one building but none of us alone can fight against mega-developer groups and their "portfolios". They should have been regulated from the start. We need to find ways to fight them together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-90487861684262664932018-08-15T16:41:09.909-04:002018-08-15T16:41:09.909-04:00Tenants are even betrayed by the courts. What a sa...Tenants are even betrayed by the courts. What a sad city we have become. Did our beloved Carlina Rivera help? I know...I know... Why bother with her. cmarrtyyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06948995395819496180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-34120917054850130042018-08-15T15:39:44.685-04:002018-08-15T15:39:44.685-04:00This is a clause that is in most leases but people...This is a clause that is in most leases but people don't pay attention to it -- if there is legal action between landlord and tenant the one who loses is responsible for attorney fees. It is often on the 2nd or 3rd page of a standard lease -- if you cross it out in pencil (and not magic marker) and date and initial, the landlord may not notice -- however you lose your option to collect any attorney fees if you win. Regardless, the playing field is not level --attorney fees to a hedge fund are meaningless but are punishingly significant to us. Our case was based on crossing the rent threshold that moves a regulated apartment to a market rate apartment. When they took us to court we were in a legal stabilized apartment as the law said that the PREVIOUS tenant had to cross that threshold not the new tenant. This was challenged by the real estate lobby and they fought to have it overturned. We fought it as we were in complete compliance with law. However, they pressed on and in April the law was overturned in Albany by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court and our case was doomed. If we would have prevailed a huge number of market-rate apartments would have returned to regulated -- thus the real estate lobby moved into a full court press against the SmithStones. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15732732146265017705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-52800987698668839892018-08-15T15:38:17.659-04:002018-08-15T15:38:17.659-04:00Why should these people lose their home b/c of tha...Why should these people lose their home b/c of that POS Toledano's idiocies? This is so very, very wrong.<br /><br />Mayor De Blasio, are you paying any attention to this? Or are you aligned with Madison Realty in some way?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-217048504648637882018-08-15T11:45:59.697-04:002018-08-15T11:45:59.697-04:00Did they have a decent case or not? Was the judge ...Did they have a decent case or not? Was the judge a De Blasio pro-REMY appointee?<br />I feel bad for this family another loss for the neighborhood. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-89134673065906462712018-08-15T09:35:58.529-04:002018-08-15T09:35:58.529-04:00What was the clause in their lease? $250k seems li...What was the clause in their lease? $250k seems like a ton of money to deploy on spec and clearly they lost so curious what the rest of the story is... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com