Ocean Ordered To Turn On The Lights

I hope Ocean fights this overreach by FRC. What do lights have to do with what is fair for rent? $1 rent is NOT FAIR. Let the 12 year tenant move and find a better place. Where she lives, everything breaks?? How is that? She wants to pay dump prices but she wants a palace for 995??? These buildings were beautiful and it is not the owner who wrecked them. It is the tenants.

There should be a board that allows residents to get their taxes changed based on services that the city is providing.

If you call the Police, and you wait more than two hours, you shouldnt have to pay taxes that month.

If the city doesnt respond to see click fix requests in 1 month, your taxes are abated.

If the city allows protestors to block traffic for hours on end, you are entitled to compensation from the city.

CY2, you have said that you are or have been a landlord. You do not appear to be familiar with the relevant law.

CGS § 7-148c requires the commission to consider a wide range of factors in determining whether the rent is excessive. These include the availability of utilities, the repairs needed to make the apartment reasonably livable for the tenants, and whether the apartment complies with state and local health and safety laws. As the article notes, the city has found that the landlord has failed to maintain a safe and healthy apartment.

If you think this law is unfair, you have every right to seek to change it. But these provisions have been the law for over 50 years.

Manofthepeople1, I assume you are being hyperbolical. But one of the basic precepts of municipal law is that municipalities can only do what their states let them do. CT requires cities like New Haven to establish Fair Rent Commissions and specifies how they operate. State law does not allow municipalities to do any of the things you suggest. You, too, might want to contact your state legislators if you want to change the law.

Wow City Yankee- how would you like to be living under those conditions? This is not one thing shes reported it clearly said theres a series of incidents that have been reported mold, and water leaks , faulty, electrical, sockets, no steady, lighting in the building, multiple things breaking, which could be an oven, a fridge, etc. In New York City, and other places, these wouldve been severe violations that would not have been intolerant for 12 years. They are lucky to have a 12 year tenant someone steady and stable that has paid the rent. I find your complaint completely completely unfair here and obviously so does everyone else which is why they handed down such an extreme decision. No one should have to live like that.. obviously, it sounds like youve never experienced living in a place that you pay a decent rent, but is subpar. This landlord has been known to be a slumlord and clearly they have allowed the building to deteriorate.. it is not always the tenants dont blame the tenants. That is a very privileged point of view from you.

Ocean Management needs to get out of the residential housing market, as they are clearly incompetent and neglectful landlords with a long history of not properly maintaining and repairing their properties in a reasonable time period.
Hopefully they will sell of all their properties and someone else will buy them and properly fix them up. Some basic repairs and maintenance would create loyal tenants and steady income for somebody who knows how to be a good landlord.

Does everybody have a short memory? Ocean Management & Principal Shmuel Aizenberg "avoids criminal charge" but promises to avoid these situations again. I guess he did not hear the Judge and the terms. Hopefully FHC Judge Spader reads this and brings him back to face prosecution. Right now it looks like you can be a brutal slum landlord and do whatever you want and the powers that be just turn their heads. We shall see. NHI can you run the Accelerated Rehab. story again? As usual the time frame story of complaints runs for years, nothing new same thing over and over again. HELP!

Thank you FRC! This is fantastic!

And, thank you for saving me $3,000 from the company who took over our rental building. Landlords are notorious for trying to get all they can, not what is reasonable or acceptable, to make themselves rich!

What this renter describes is disturbing and intolerable! This is no way to run a business and congratulations to the FRC!!!!!!!

By comparison our landlord is top of the line when it comes to service. My refrigerator stopped. Someone was here within an hour. I recently got locked out and someone from my rental company was here within an hour! On Super Bowl night my heating stopped. Someone was here within an hour and fixed it! On schedule every week they plow when it snows, they mow more often than they need to (I think), they replaced all of my windows last Spring as the promised the would when we first rented here. I can't say enough about his company.

Besides respecting the integrity of our building and many others they own and operate in the East Rock area, their staff is always pleasant and ready to help you with problems that might arise that they are responsible for.

The person who was the agent and showed us this apartment EVEN stopped by to help with a computer glitch in regard to them getting their rent on time every month.

THANK YOU NEW HAVEN RENTAL COMMISSION!

And, thank you Wildalitz Burmudez for your tireless advocacy for tenants getting what they are due! The law is the law.

And, based on my experience, there are some fantastic, honest landlords and I happen to have one of them. Amen.

CY2, going to your 2/23 comments, my reference to the law was not about landlord responsibilities, which Im sure you understood. Rather it was to the law that governs the Fair Rent Commission. You and other landlords may not like the commission. But at least in this case, it is operating fully within the law.