I live in New York City in a rent controlled apartment with my sister, and my two children. We split the rent three ways, with my brother who is supposed to be staying but chose to play house and stayed with his girlfriend. My sister and me pay for everything else. We live in a nice sized 4 bedroom apartment, with one full and one half bath..
In the first week of November, my brother's girlfriend was burned out of her apartment. Well, against our protest, my brother brought his girlfriend, her daughter, her pets, and boxes and boxes and several garbage bags of items. We had no room for her, with two damaged, now uninhabitable front rooms due to a pipe bursting in the above apartment. My sister lost her bedroom, and has been staying with our mother since. She continues to pay as if she were here, against my protest. Work has come to a standstill, because there is nowhere for our things to be moved while his girlfriends items are here. She refuses to remove the remainder. His girlfriend is chronically homeless. She has had a section 8 voucher since May 2007 and was supposed to have been searching for a new apartment. Now due the fire, she now has a HPD Section 8 Voucher. His girlfriend has been a stero-typical "hood rat" of a guest. She's just nasty, and has been so hurtfully disrespectful, has vandalized the apartment causing damage and is a thief. My brother does nothing. My sister, my children and me want to give up the apartment and leave. Since her time of many, many on off years of dating my brother, whenever anything happens, she always winds up here. NO MORE WE SAY!
The landlord is trying to convert the building into condos. Since we seem to be getting nowhere with our brother. My sister and me want to give up our rights to the rent control apartment. The landlord was talking about buyouts and we may need some relocation help. Problem. Landlord and staff is extremely unorganized. Like messing up paperwork, missing records, no show in court when he filed. I think this is a tactic he's using to frustrate tenants to vacate the building, some have. Most of his tenants are market. He needs a certain number of apartments to avoid tenant vote. I have spoken to tenants assoc. and other attorneys and housing advocates about the situation here with my brother and his girlfriend. No one seems well versed on rent controlled apartments. There are so few. How could we approach the landlord about buying the two of us out? We will pressure our brother to leave. He doesn't want to leave the city. I will rent my brother another apartment, he cannot afford this one alone. I will not have my name tied to anything with my spineless irresponsible brother in anyway. The landlord needs, I think, 5 or 6 apartments. He now has 4 vacant in this building. We'll, hopefully, be the fifth.
Again. How do I approach the landlord about selling my rights to this rent controlled apartment?
Signed
Extremely Angry
In the first week of November, my brother's girlfriend was burned out of her apartment. Well, against our protest, my brother brought his girlfriend, her daughter, her pets, and boxes and boxes and several garbage bags of items. We had no room for her, with two damaged, now uninhabitable front rooms due to a pipe bursting in the above apartment. My sister lost her bedroom, and has been staying with our mother since. She continues to pay as if she were here, against my protest. Work has come to a standstill, because there is nowhere for our things to be moved while his girlfriends items are here. She refuses to remove the remainder. His girlfriend is chronically homeless. She has had a section 8 voucher since May 2007 and was supposed to have been searching for a new apartment. Now due the fire, she now has a HPD Section 8 Voucher. His girlfriend has been a stero-typical "hood rat" of a guest. She's just nasty, and has been so hurtfully disrespectful, has vandalized the apartment causing damage and is a thief. My brother does nothing. My sister, my children and me want to give up the apartment and leave. Since her time of many, many on off years of dating my brother, whenever anything happens, she always winds up here. NO MORE WE SAY!
The landlord is trying to convert the building into condos. Since we seem to be getting nowhere with our brother. My sister and me want to give up our rights to the rent control apartment. The landlord was talking about buyouts and we may need some relocation help. Problem. Landlord and staff is extremely unorganized. Like messing up paperwork, missing records, no show in court when he filed. I think this is a tactic he's using to frustrate tenants to vacate the building, some have. Most of his tenants are market. He needs a certain number of apartments to avoid tenant vote. I have spoken to tenants assoc. and other attorneys and housing advocates about the situation here with my brother and his girlfriend. No one seems well versed on rent controlled apartments. There are so few. How could we approach the landlord about buying the two of us out? We will pressure our brother to leave. He doesn't want to leave the city. I will rent my brother another apartment, he cannot afford this one alone. I will not have my name tied to anything with my spineless irresponsible brother in anyway. The landlord needs, I think, 5 or 6 apartments. He now has 4 vacant in this building. We'll, hopefully, be the fifth.
Again. How do I approach the landlord about selling my rights to this rent controlled apartment?
Signed
Extremely Angry
