M GO BLUE!!!
06-16-2009, 10:47 PM
I just found out yesterday that my building is in need of major boiler repairs. I live on the first floor and was told that they will need to displace me in order to do the work needed to this floor. I have been told three different stories so far.
The super told me that they would move me to an apartment on the 6th floor that I checked out from the street. It faces the ass-end of another building. He didn't know how long I would be there.
The building manager said today that they would move me to an apartment that I would love. From the street, it appears to be a corner apartment with multiple windows and a halfway decent view (for the Bronx.) He met my concerns regarding having to move my utilities there by telling me they would have me there for quite a while.
Now the landlady, who I had never even met before today lays on me that I wouldn't really need to move out, just sleep in another apartment and leave when they would be there to tear it apart (LOL!)
Anyone have any experience in this area? I would love to just take a nicer apartment (like the corner one) for the same rent, trade my current lease for that one & stay there. I'm tired of this apartment anyway. My bedroom and kitchen are windowless. I get very little air in here from the two small windows that open, and not much light as it is. I also have no privacy if I open the blinds, as the building pulled the bushes out that at lease blocked direct view from the sidewalk.
The best info I have found online is loosely related, but for a much longer move that the landlord was really trying to clean out the building of rent controlled tenants:
If you were to relocate it will likely be as a favor to the LL, you should demand equal sized accommodations/equal services, very possibly paying ZERO rent for the term of your relocation (you have no lease/contract to pay rent on a different apartment other than the one you currently have a lease for...and without a binding contract, the LL cannot force you to pay rent on another unit...if you cannot dwell in your unit you are 'constructively evicted' and should not have to pay any rent). Were you to relocate, the LL should be picking up the tab for ANY AND ALL moving and storage expenses, in both directions, including a professional insured and bonded moving company to both pack (or compensate you for time off work to pack) and move your possessions in both directions, relocation of any cable/phone lines, etc....all this in writing and drafted by your attorney. The LL should also be paying your attorney fees for drafting the agreement and this term should be noted in the agreement itself. Remember, a relocation is most likely an accommodation to the LL and is not mandatory, and he should thus be covering ALL your expenses and also compensating you for any inconvenience. A Relocation Agreement protects your rights: your rent from being increased upon return, that you have the same size apartment upon return without detrimental alterations, it should fix a precise move-back date with DIRE monetary consequences if the agreement is violated by the LL.
This is all adding to my wanting to just move back to Detroit, which if I found a decent job I probably would do anyway.
The super told me that they would move me to an apartment on the 6th floor that I checked out from the street. It faces the ass-end of another building. He didn't know how long I would be there.
The building manager said today that they would move me to an apartment that I would love. From the street, it appears to be a corner apartment with multiple windows and a halfway decent view (for the Bronx.) He met my concerns regarding having to move my utilities there by telling me they would have me there for quite a while.
Now the landlady, who I had never even met before today lays on me that I wouldn't really need to move out, just sleep in another apartment and leave when they would be there to tear it apart (LOL!)
Anyone have any experience in this area? I would love to just take a nicer apartment (like the corner one) for the same rent, trade my current lease for that one & stay there. I'm tired of this apartment anyway. My bedroom and kitchen are windowless. I get very little air in here from the two small windows that open, and not much light as it is. I also have no privacy if I open the blinds, as the building pulled the bushes out that at lease blocked direct view from the sidewalk.
The best info I have found online is loosely related, but for a much longer move that the landlord was really trying to clean out the building of rent controlled tenants:
If you were to relocate it will likely be as a favor to the LL, you should demand equal sized accommodations/equal services, very possibly paying ZERO rent for the term of your relocation (you have no lease/contract to pay rent on a different apartment other than the one you currently have a lease for...and without a binding contract, the LL cannot force you to pay rent on another unit...if you cannot dwell in your unit you are 'constructively evicted' and should not have to pay any rent). Were you to relocate, the LL should be picking up the tab for ANY AND ALL moving and storage expenses, in both directions, including a professional insured and bonded moving company to both pack (or compensate you for time off work to pack) and move your possessions in both directions, relocation of any cable/phone lines, etc....all this in writing and drafted by your attorney. The LL should also be paying your attorney fees for drafting the agreement and this term should be noted in the agreement itself. Remember, a relocation is most likely an accommodation to the LL and is not mandatory, and he should thus be covering ALL your expenses and also compensating you for any inconvenience. A Relocation Agreement protects your rights: your rent from being increased upon return, that you have the same size apartment upon return without detrimental alterations, it should fix a precise move-back date with DIRE monetary consequences if the agreement is violated by the LL.
This is all adding to my wanting to just move back to Detroit, which if I found a decent job I probably would do anyway.