Given that the fines eventually expire, why would anyone pay them?
Yes, the Kushners are dishonest landlords, and NYC seems to have the perfect set-up in which they can thrive.
What was the snappy chant that I’ve heard so often at Trump rallies? Oh yeah, Lock Him Up. Looks like Ivanka married someone cut in her father’s image.
Just a cost of doing business. Hey, being a slum lord ain’t all gravy, but if you wait eight years…no biggie. Sleazy little fuck.
“This is a company that will cut corners at any cost, even if it comes at the expense of its residents and the rule of law,” said Aaron Carr, executive director of Housing Rights Initiative, which compiled the data.
He could have been referring to The Trump Organization…
The Kushner family real estate firm has amassed over half a million dollars in unpaid fines for various New York City sanitation and building violations
And NYC will do squat to collect…however, if I would not pay my property taxes, for example, the county will be knocking at the door within months to evict me and sell the property. As usual $$$$ talks.
Every significant property owner in New York gets fined at some point for something
While I was not a significant property owner in NYC, some years ago I did own an apartment building. While I owned the building, originally built in 1928, I remodeled all apartments and common areas. Not a single time was any portion of the work cited for safety or other violations. While tenants did knock on the building managers door as well as the project managers, they always were treated with courtesy. As a result when we did eventually raise rents the tenants had seen the effort and care as well as the results, grumbles yes, complaints no, and not a single one moved.
Absolutely. And things like “loose rubbish” associated with construction can mean boards with nails sticking out of them, or debris blocking doors and hallways.
But in general, funny how we’re much more comfortable with rich people being deadbeats than with poor people not paying their fines. If these were traffic tickets in Ferguson, half the company would be in jail waiting for their money orders to come through. With add-on fees for accomodation.
Biggest issue for me was the potential of asbestos dust. Especially from old steam/hot water heating systems as those pipes usually had an asbestos insulation wrap. While the shell was hard it is not all that hard to damage and once exposed, well…
You know NYC the way to make them pay is not to issue new permits until the old fines are paid. This is not the 80s where NYC was struggling, everyone who wants to play needs to pay.
This is the kind of stuff that I expect will change across the country as more younger Dems take power in a Trump and post-Trump era. The era of excessive corporate privilege will come to an end.
Single, most corrupt administration in U.S. history.
Ah, yes, it’s the tenant’s fault. By this flatulent logic tenants should be saying, “Pardon me. but is my eye hurting your elbow?”
what’s the problem? i’m sure the check is in the mail.
weird. you treat your tenants like human beings and they respond in kind? who knew?
Does anyone remember those times in the 70/80s when NYC would issue some form of “parking” ticket that would prevent a person from renewing their registration until the fine was paid. Many, many, many folks, nation wide, who had never been to NYC suddenly found that they owed the city 100s of dollars. Now that is the way to get paid, as you state, no new permits until paid in full.
The time-tested solution is pretty simple: donate money to the corrupt and malleable Head Prosecutor Cyrus Vance Jr. He’ll rollover for $20k. Look it up. Javanka/Jr. did it successfully in the past in a real estate fraud case.
Move to Vermont. Where tennants are kings and queens!! And landlords are scared.
NYC fines expire? Whoa!
I had to check this for myself, it’s so crazy:
If a fine isn’t collected in eight years, it “expires” and doesn’t need to be paid. In the year through June 2017, $94 million in fines expired.
Source: Time, Kushners’ Property Firm Amassed More Than Half a Million Dollars in Unpaid New York City Fines
See now that’s what I call Mob Rule.
For people of Kushner’s ilk, such fines are simple a mere trifle… or as they used to say “a mere bagatelle”.
It is the smart way to run rentals. The only way to make anything is to keep turnover low. Long term tenants don’t cause problems, etc. A happy tenant is money in the bank.