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JuanJeanJohn t1_iy3a0vo wrote
Damn, he even had a Daily Show segment about him back in the day: https://www.cc.com/video/cguv0p/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-no-meal-plan-no-cry
What I don’t get is the landlord connection to him. I’m definitely not denying there is one, but he is just some psychopath for hire as a job that slumlords use to harass tenants? What happens if the landlord does manage to get everyone to leave - who says this guy is going to go anywhere?
BrieGoneThot t1_iy3pkcp wrote
https://gothamist.com/news/six-arrested-in-east-flatbush-drug-raid
Seems like a stand-up guy.
drpvn t1_iy3qdy2 wrote
It’s possible there’s no coordination. Horrible story nonetheless.
NetQuarterLatte t1_iy3x4gn wrote
>The landlord’s latest offer still stands to move Mr. Roberts into a rent-regulated apartment in the neighborhood to better conduct repairs in his unit, according to Mr. Toonkel, the lawyer.
One of his neighbors accepted a 150k lump sum offer to move out.
I want to feel sympathy for someone "losing" their $450/mo lease deal, but I've got to admit it's not easy.
Edit: that lump sum alone would've put him above the median savings for people above 75-year-olds https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart/#series:Retirement_Accounts;demographic:agecl;population:6;units:median;range:1989,2019
mowotlarx t1_iy42ln2 wrote
This is an elderly man on a fixed income who is by all rights in poverty (like most elderly people in this country) and has been lower income most of his life. It's not hard to feel bad for an elderly man on a fixed income being forced out of his home.
By the way, 150k won't get you much unless he moves out of the city entirely. When you realize that someone his age could live more than 10-20 years, that's a pitiable sum.
NetQuarterLatte t1_iy45o1d wrote
>By the way, 150k won't get you much unless he moves out of the city entirely. When you realize that someone his age could live more than 10-20 years, that's a pitiable sum.
The median retirement savings for people 75 or older was 83k in 2019. In 2016 it peaked around 126k.
He already has his fixed retirement income. So the cash out sum of 150k would've been on top of that.
I'm still having a hard time feeling a lot of sympathy, if I'm being honest.
mowotlarx t1_iy48g52 wrote
You have no idea what this guy has saved. The average doesn't take into account the majority of elderly people in this country living in poverty on a fixed wage. Many of them lose everything during the Great Recession. You're also neglecting to take into account the kind of rent he'll be seeing from any other apartment in this city. That money would disappear quickly.
This'll be us one day, only we'll likely have even less whole rents will be higher.
Mammoth_Sprinkles705 t1_iya6qwq wrote
150k is shit for the rents NYC rents.
He will have spent 150k in a few years renting at market rate.
Then if he is not dead by then he will be homeless.
NetQuarterLatte t1_iya8gc3 wrote
There are many cheaper places with warmer climates, where 150k would be pretty sizable. That's in addition to his fixed retirement income by the way.
So that seems like a choice.
drpvn t1_iy41w8l wrote
Probably none of this happens if the building was market rate.
BrieGoneThot t1_iy3p2pm wrote
This LL is a criminal. Arrest them and seize the building.
ThisOneForMee t1_iy8o7am wrote
> seize the building
What country do you think this is in?
Mammoth_Sprinkles705 t1_iya6td6 wrote
One that let's land lords fuck over residents
ThisOneForMee t1_iya9it3 wrote
Also lets tenants fuck over landlords.
BrieGoneThot t1_iy8ogpi wrote
Oh boy wait until you hear about civil forfeiture and eminent domain.
ThisOneForMee t1_iy8pba7 wrote
I'm aware of those. Neither have any relation to having someone's entire building seized for being a bad landlord. Do you have any examples of that?
drpvn t1_iy3606b wrote
This is the neighbor.
https://nypost.com/2016/09/14/judge-said-i-couldnt-read-religious-quotes-so-i-wore-them/