Topsy Turvey New York City as Landlord Faces Eviction as ‘Deadbeat’ Tenants Refuse to Pay Rent

by CrownHeights.info

New York City has gone topsy turvey as a landlord finds himself facing eviction after ‘deadbeat’ tenants refuse to pay rent.

According to the New York Post, David Howson, now 88, has long used rental income from his 10-unit building at 9 West 129th St. to help pay for the co-op apartment in Inwood where he’s lived for decades. Now, out more than $40,000 and suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, he’s had trouble paying his own maintenance charges and is himself facing the boot, his family claims.

The alleged deadbeats in Howson’s building will get another break, courtesy of Albany’s largesse, as the legislature is expected to pass a new eviction moratorium that will keep wayward tenants in their apartments until at least May 2021.

“We have nothing. We are completely destitute,” daughter Jessica Howson, who manages her father’s affairs, told The Post.

The Post wrote that the he bulk of the lost income — more than $39,000 — comes from a single tenant who inherited rights to the apartment after her husband left for a nursing home, and hasn’t paid a dime of rent since December 2016, according to the landlord, who showed rent rolls to The Post.

According to the Post’s report, the Hawson’s have been attempting to have the deadbeat tenants evicted, fruitlessly as the city continues to provide free legal services to the tenant.

While this story may be just one, it by far not the only one, as landlords across the city find it harder to make money, and are moving to other more lucrative cities with their investments.