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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Oct 24 21:55:05 2011 In an already depressed economy, some landlords don't want to go to the time and legal expense of evicting a tenant behind on their rent through the courts. Lately, there has been an uptick of so-called "backdoor evictions" in NYC, where people are forced from their homes without ever being served with eviction papers or appearing before a judge. The scheme, according to NYC Housing investigators, works something like this:1. Tenant falls behind on his/her rent. 2. Landlord, wanting tenant out immediately, dials 911, reports tenant has assaulted him/her, or committed some other crime requiring arrest and processing "through the system", that is, via Central Booking. 3. While tenant waits for arraignment (usually on charges of "assault" or "drug dealing"), landlord gets order of protection barring tenant from returning home once he or she gets out of jail. 4. Landlord removes tenant's belongings, changes locks, rents to new tenant. Believe it or not, landlords are actually getting away with this. Most displaced tenants have a very difficult time proving they are, in fact, innocent of the trumped-up accusations against them, and by then, they sure don't have the money to fight their landlords in court of any kind. Just another sign of the times we live in...thoughts? |
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