A teeny, very important, tidbit from Barbara Ross in yesterday’s Daily News:<\/p>\n
Landlords who did not give downtown tenants rent refunds for the days that Hurricane Sandy made their apartments uninhabitable are the target of a new class-action lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n In the first statewide class-action suit growing out of the storm, the litigants said state law requires apartments\u2014and co-ops\u2014to be habitable, and that means they must have electric power.<\/em><\/p>\n “You can’t charge rent for the days when you’re without power,” said attorney Barbara Hart of White Plains.<\/em><\/p>\n This is called a “warrant of habitability,” and it applies to all of us, even us shareholders in co-ops. Indeed, it is a factor in my own lawsuit, although in my case it was the Skush-O’Brien Board of Directors, not Sandy, that caused the problem.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A teeny, very important, tidbit from Barbara Ross in yesterday’s Daily News: Landlords who did not give downtown tenants rent refunds for the days that Hurricane Sandy made their apartments uninhabitable are the target of a new class-action lawsuit filed … Continue reading