I recently moved into an apartment @ 88 Lembeck Ave on the 1st floor. The apartment is very nice and although I found the rent to be on the high side my husband and I both decided to go with it because it was in a nice area and we both loved the apartment. Once we moved in it became know to us that the landlord was residing in an illegal apartment located in the basement of the dwelling (Which is a two family home) and that his utilities were connect to ours a fact that he failed to mention to us.
While in the hallway of the home I was speaking the the tenant how resides upstairs from my apartment and she let me know she was moving and was telling me all sort of things about the landlord, he came knocking on the door apparently after easedropping on the conversation we were having. He proceded upstairs to her house to have a conversation with her regarding her moving and then came back down to my apartment and knocked on my door and informed me that he was contacting his lawyer to void the rental contract the we had entered into for 1 year.
His reason he told me that I could not talk to the tenant upstairs. I was appauled that he thought he could control who I spoke to and informed him that he could contact his lawyer and I would also contact mine. I spoke with him today (1/24/06) and he informed me that the lease would be voided and I requested that it be provided to me in writing and he informed me it would be.
Please to all that are trying to rent from this individual BEWARE.
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