Oh, how the tables have turned!
As first reported here on FAA News, back in May 2023, tenants of Prime Apartment who were represented by Attorneys Ian Goldman, Adam Pfeffer, and Cassandra Distefano Esq. of Levin Shea Pfeffer and Goldman, served their landlord and his property manager with a Superior Court lawsuit alleging a long list of illegal rent increases, harassment, intimidation and retaliation.
Immediately following initiation of the lawsuit, the landlord filed a hardship rent increase application with the Lakewood Rent Control Board on the basis that he is bleeding money from this property and must raise rents simply in order to support the economic viability of the apartment complex.
As the news was broken here on FAA News, back in May 2024, Judge Valter Must tossed the lawsuit completely, agreeing with the landlord that; a) in all this time, the tenants failed to prove any of their allegations against their landlord; b) the Township's Rent Control Board ordinances, including the provisions permitting landlords to file for hardship related rent increases remains valid - despite the fact that the Township Committee abolished the Rent Control Board years ago to help "one of the boyz who was in some trouble," therefore as of August 1, 2023, rents were increased to $2,483 as requested in the hardship application to the Rent Control Board.
In all this time, numerous tenants still refuse to pay proper rent. Many of the tenants owe $20,000 in rent arrears based on Judge Must's rulings.
The tables are now being turned, with the landlord being the one to file lawsuits against all the tenants for the rent arrears.
15 tenants were served lawsuits over the past couple of days.
The Lakewood Township Committee has confirmed that they do not intend to reopen the Rent Control Board they abolished 8 years ago, despite the ongoing mess this abolishment has caused.
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5 comments:
What happened to the Rashi on the posek ואלא המשפטים ?
He will never get the back rent. They will just move out
They can move out and then have their wages garnished......for years...... Very sad that bnai torah act like this And very sad that this is the only way they can learn a lesson....
I hope the tenants were putting away the money monthly, because they will be forced to pay it.
@11:17
That is a great queation but solely on the tenants (So called "Bnei Torah" pheh). Halacha meforeshes, once one party goes to arakoas they forfeit all zechusim to a psak in beis din. The other party is beheter gamur to continue in arakoas. There is NO cholek.
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