{"id":15199,"date":"2013-07-10T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=15199"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:34:32","slug":"the-ultimate-apartment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=15199","title":{"rendered":"“The Ultimate Apartment Scam”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the May 27 New Yorker, Tad Friend wrote a story, called “Crowded House: They thought that they’d found the perfect apartment. They weren’t alone,”<\/a> that every single New Yorker or New Yorker wanna-be must read.<\/p>\n

The title is not hyperbole as a lot of you, who’ll pick up shards from your own experiences with landlords (or the equivalent) when you’ve tried to rent or sublet an apartment, will realize.<\/p>\n

Friend’s mind-boggling story introduces you to a whole lot of amazingly credulous people (some of them famous), a desirable Chelsea two-bedroom (that came with a bulldog mix named Tucker and, handily, a police precinct across the street), scams and counterscams, the D.A.’s office, the Hamptons, an old Mercedes that didn’t necessarily operate and Criminal Court and Housing Court \u2014 about which I have just finished up a how-to series.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sip that made me laugh out loud:<\/p>\n

His Hamptons escape plan was further hindered by his having alienated local real-estate agents and bounced a $13,700 check for the down payment on a house rental. And, of course, by the fact that the United States has an extradition treaty with Sag Harbor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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