http://overlawyered.com/2006/12/jarndyce-v-jarndyce-new-york-landlord-tenant-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jarndyce-v-jarndyce-new-york-landlord-tenant-edition Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 05:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://overlawyered.com/2006/12/jarndyce-v-jarndyce-new-york-landlord-tenant-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-4996 David Wilson Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:39:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4277#comment-4996 Keep all this mind when you're writing out your big monthly check for a New York apartment (an exercise of mine for seven years). This is the risk your landlord undertakes, and this is how he's compensated for it. I'm sure there are sympathetic stories to be found tenant-side, and I wouldn't call myself an opponent of some protection measures for tenants. But I wonder what would happen to rents if the law weren't so tilted in their favor? "Landlord" is a term that invites scorn and conjures an image of a scrooge-like capitalist with his feet up, but the crap they (the smaller ones who don't have third parties do the dirty work) have to put up with is never-ending. Plenty of folks who thought they could pick up some easy extra cash on the side have discovered what a headache it can be. Keep all this mind when you’re writing out your big monthly check for a New York apartment (an exercise of mine for seven years). This is the risk your landlord undertakes, and this is how he’s compensated for it. I’m sure there are sympathetic stories to be found tenant-side, and I wouldn’t call myself an opponent of some protection measures for tenants. But I wonder what would happen to rents if the law weren’t so tilted in their favor? “Landlord” is a term that invites scorn and conjures an image of a scrooge-like capitalist with his feet up, but the crap they (the smaller ones who don’t have third parties do the dirty work) have to put up with is never-ending. Plenty of folks who thought they could pick up some easy extra cash on the side have discovered what a headache it can be.

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