countdevio wrote:
Read my posts carefully.
I'm moving out after being subjected to mold, rats, no
repairs for 9 months and city agencies not doing anything.
As far as affordability, if you really read my background,
40 percent of my clients have been pro bono, out of my
pocket. I work a lot with vets. Was Mother Teresa rich?
Was any of those who accomplished the things we take for
granted, or whom stood up for others acknowledged.
People who have a little knowledge and judge others are
dangerous. And it seems you have no intention of asking a
question, just looking to find something to put another
human down.
Crowe wrote:
Tread carefully. I just looked him up and if he's as successful a hypnotist as he purports to be I find it hard to believe he can't afford his apartment any more.
I read your post carefully and have spent many many MANY years @ 111 Centre Street in the service of mostly low and middle income coops:).
Have lived as:
a rent stabilised tenant
a free market tenant
a homeowner in the outer boros
and a coop owner
All this means there is basically NO kind of city housing I haven't firsthand and up to date knowledge of with the exception of hardcore homelessness.
I'm ASTOUNDED a NYC L/T lawyer charged you 33% of your settlement. The type of fee structure you described can be legally found only for liability/tort law. Unless you had one of those "only in NYC arse kicking goes on for years housing cases".
Yes, I've seen the changes of the Village. And the Bronx, (grew up there) which went from having 2 fat sized phone books (Yellow and White) to one combined to equal the size of Staten Island's. Anddd I remember when the "good" part of the WS ended at 96th Street and there was only Harlem and Spanish Harlem instead of all the chi chi names now in use. And everything from the shore of Bklyn to A+S's was called either Red Hook (shudder when u say that LMAO) or Downtown with only Bklyn Hghts huddling in the corner as a buffer. In fact I bought a house in Boerum Heights which had no height what w/ being in the bottom of a valley and not even Boerum Pl which was located in Cobble Hill;).
Sorry you feel that your housing violations were not adequately addressed by the city bureaucracy. HPD has an office complete w/ inspectors to make complaints at on the 8th floor of the courthouse and it's been my experience they are very thorough. Actually too thorough from my perspective. Many was the time that they cited violations that were the complainants' responsibility - a bit of poetic justice as it were.
Justice is slowwwwwwww in NYC's housing court (about 6 months for an uncontested eviction) yet eventual.
Thus...assuming all you have said is true I feel sorry for the exceptionally bad legal and financial advice you've received to date and stand by Crowe's assessment as you've presented it on this site.
Oh and finally........your website's claim that 40% of your clients were pro bono makes me chortle.
Out loud. A lot.
Again, GL
