Posted on 01/27/2015 8:11:18 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
The too-damn-high rent is now the least of Jimmy McMillan’s problems.
The flamboyant gubernatorial candidate has been slapped with an eviction notice ordering him out of his $872-a-month rent stabilized East Village apartment.
McMillan, founder of the fringe political party called The Rent Is Too Damn High, has filed suit in Brooklyn Federal Court seeking to stave off the eviction, which is scheduled to be carried out by a city marshal Feb. 5. Acting as his own lawyer, he is also demanding $1.3 million in monetary damages.
The 68-year-old Vietnam War veteran has been embroiled in a legal battle with the landlord, who claimed the one-bedroom flat on St. Marks Place wasn’t McMillan’s primary residence, and that he actually lives in Brooklyn.
“They don't have the authority to evict me,” McMillan told the Daily News on Monday .
McMillan’s two-page complaint says landlord Lisco Holdings LLC did not comply with an order from the Housing Court in 2009 to give him a new key after locking him out of the building .
“They never gave me a damn key,” he said, so he obtained a new one on his own.
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Heck I would have voted for him, he couldn’t be any worse than what they have now.
He was complaining about $872 rent?
Its worse, he was actually complaining about $872 rent for two apartments. When he got famous, running for NYC mayor the NY Times interviewed him and the idiot admitted he lived in a Brooklyn apartment for free where he was a janitor. He also admitted he had another apartment in Manhattan that he paid $872- for. The landlord used that interview as evidence in the eviction proceedings.
This is a big racket in New York City. In these rent-controlled apartments the rent is kept the same until the occupant leaves, so you find these cases where someone lives there for years and is still paying what would have been a market rate 40+ years ago. It reaches the point of absurdity when the tenant (and family members) play all kinds of games to make it seem like the original tenant is still living there.
The typical case in NYC involves an old tenant who moves into a nursing home, and the family of one of their adult children moves into the place but still lists it as the parent's residence so they pay the "old" rental rate.
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