Date: July 22nd, 2009

No landlord at all: Part 2, the present lender

22 July, 2009 (08:54) | Landlords, New York City, Rent control, Rental, Subprime, Tenure, Theory, US News | 1 comment

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
When an owner skedaddles, leaving a trail of crumbling buildings and reams of uncured building code violations, whom can we vilify?
 

Building code violations!  New York Times articles!  Run away!
 
Certainly someone is culpable:
 
At 1744 Clay Avenue, residents have endured winter days without heat and hot water. The super has not been paid [...]