Vantage accused of tenant violations at Washington Heights building
November 18, 2009 11:00AM
3495 Broadway (source: PropertyShark)
Five Washington Heights residents have filed suit against their landlord for allegedly violating the Tenant Protection Act by intimidating, harassing and threatening them in order to force them out of their rent regulated apartments, according to the Indypendent. The target of the suit, Vantage Properties, has also been accused of not addressing health and safety concerns, such as damaged floors and leaky ceilings, in the building at 3495 Broadway. "The tenants live with mold, rodents and roaches because of Vantage and 3489 Broadway LLC's gross negligence and disregard," Lyda Tyburec, a Manhattan Legal Services staff attorney affiliated with the case, said. There are a reported 100 different housing code violations on the 80-unit building, according to the city housing agency. [Indypendent]
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Comments
Anonymous
Terrible slumlords need to be charged as the criminals that they are. Hardworking people deserve respect...not just the wealthy. Vantage...FIX THE VIOLATIONS!!! Would your owner live there? Do unto others...
Comment #1 Posted By: Anonymous 11/18/09
Anonymous
So pay more rent and they can fix the building up..... How are land lords supposed to pay for things if tenants are only paying $600 for a 3 bedroom?
Comment #2 Posted By: Anonymous 11/18/09
Anonymous
100 violations on an 80 unit building is VERY ACCEPTABLE. If you don't think so then you CLEARLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE VIOLATION PROCESS in the city. Even the city will admit that unless the ratio of violations to apartments is 5 to 1 then there's not a problem. If you disagree it's because you SIMPLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS.
Comment #3 Posted By: Anonymous 11/18/09
Anonymous
If the building is as bad as is alleged then why would only 5 of the 80 tenants file suit? Seems to me that with a building in that neighborhood it wouldn't be hard to find 40 people who were pissed at the landlord just because the landlord was rich. 5 of 80 makes it clear to me that the landlord is doing a great job.
Comment #4 Posted By: Anonymous 11/18/09
Anonymous
Vantage got in to the buying real estate as an investment and to profit their investors shareholders, of course they wil try to do whatever they legally can to get rid of low paying rentors. Is this bad or good, well live in a democratic capitalistic country and these guys are no different than most landlords they want to be profitable, look at stuyvesant town, they pulled some crazy stunts there too and lost in cours, real estate is a gamble my friends these guys are not in this game for charity but profits
Comment #5 Posted By: Anonymous 11/18/09
Anonymous
This company bought over 80 buildings when they where most high in price 05-07 its going to a be long road to make a profit with todays extreme drop in RE. good luck vantage. Greed can bite you in the "beep" some times.
Comment #6 Posted By: Anonymous 11/18/09
Anonymous
Until our court systems care more about justice than prudence this will never change. I should know, I'm a victim that has been chased out of their rent stabalized apartment by a pervert of a landlord.
Comment #7 Posted By: Anonymous 11/19/09
Anonymous
"I'm a victim that has been chased " No one is chased out - you left of your own accord - there are 11 ways you can sue your landlord for harassment - if you pay you get to stay - it's that simple - go cry somewhere else.
Comment #8 Posted By: Anonymous 11/19/09
Anonymous
If you dont live in that specfic part of washington heights then you really do not understand the scope of the problem.Which is that out of the 80 units about 30-20% are still rent controlled. And in those units they get no priority in their requests for repairs. Most property
Comment #9 Posted By: Anonymous 11/24/09