This is facts. The do this in NYC and San Fran a lot. Want tenant out so their can raise rent a few thousand so they say they're going to renovate the kitchen. They start a demo, tear it all out, then dont come back to finish.
Two Brooklyn slumlords were busted Thursday for allegedly trashing apartments and employing other unsavory tactics to kick out long-time tenants in an illegal scheme to capitalize on the booming re…
www.nydailynews.com
This article goes into detail on how they get away with the shit. (Basically they get fined or w/e and just dont pay the fines. The city doesnt really try and collect the fines and after 8 years they forgive the balance. So slumlords will owe 6 or even 7 figures in fines and just dont pay cuz the government doesnt go after them.)
An unlikely band of Brooklyn tenants takes on two landlord brothers hell-bent on flipping their rent-stabilized homes to the luxury market.
patch.com
Yup I had a landlord who was on that type of time. Initially moved in a 2 bedroom with a friend when I was in my early 20s. After a few months my friend loses his 2nd job and couldn't keep up with the rent so he dips on me like a hoe. I go to the landlord like I'll just find a new roommate but he's like nah your friend signed the lease and has to pay what he owes so you don't have to worry about it just continue to pay your part like you have been.
8 mohths later I get hit with an eviction notice saying I owe thousands of dollars. Basically he couldn't get it from my boy for whatever reason (his parents were lawyers) so he was gonna get it from me and because it was a shared lease I shared responsibility for the rent.
After that dude would come in the apartment when I wasn't there and fuck with shit, take my weed, loose change, even put sardines all over my bed. I changed the locks and dude broke it off.
Got fed up and called my nigga to make him send some mans to tune his ass up but he grown manned me like "is it really worth 5 mins of satisfaction you gonna get to have police on your ass? Cause he gonna say it was you. You gotta hit him in a way he understands. Hit his pockets"
Basically had someone come over the apartment, I left for work and while I was at work they fucked up the fridge, oven, ac so they were beyond repair, fuck up the shower, walls, doors and some other shit. Came home after reported a break in so I was clean.
He had a condo he wasn't using so I moved out and stayed there for a little under a year.
Landlord takes me to court for the damages and rent. I had the police report so he couldn't get me on the damages. Then I go back about the rent and the wild thing is he didn't have my name correct on the lease so he couldn't even recoup that rent money.
Bitch ass nigga.
