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DO YOU LIKE SLUM LAND LORDS? Landlord Phillip Goldfarb lives in a nice suburban home while his buildings have many violations Residents of one of Phillip Goldfarb's buildings were evacuated after fire escapes were remov

BIG BAD JOHN R. 2012/06/10 15:59:56
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NO, THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO LIVE IN THEIR SLUM PROPERTY.
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HE KING OF the Goldfarb real estate empire lives in a 3,400-square-foot mansion on a leafy suburban cul-de-sac, miles from the Bronx apartment building he owns where fire escapes were removed and tenants last week found themselves homeless.

Phillip Goldfarb occasionally jets off to his luxury beachfront condo in Hollywood, Fla., but he also spends much of his time answering hundreds of code violations that his buildings rack up in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.

Goldfarb caught the city’s attention last week when he sought to close out several such violations at 2400 Webb Ave., in the Bronx. Instead, Housing Preservation & Development inspectors who showed up discovered all the fire escapes had been removed from the building.

HPD slapped Goldfarb with even more violations and the city ordered all 200 tenants out of their apartments until the problem is solved.

But long before the fire escape debacle, Goldfarb’s 14 city buildings were already catching flak from agencies that are supposed to keep housing in the city safe.

In the last decade, these buildings have amassed 307 building code violations. They currently have 226 open housing code violations as well.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/landlord-phillip-goldfarb...
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  • beach bum 2012/06/10 22:12:43
    NO, THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO LIVE IN THEIR SLUM PROPERTY.
    beach bum
    no
  • BritPunk 2012/06/10 16:29:01
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    BritPunk
    Yep , they're among the lowest. In UK we call it Rachmanism after this nasty specimen:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Maybe you should start calling it Goldfarbism.
  • BIG BAD... BritPunk 2012/06/10 16:31:56
    BIG BAD JOHN R.
    +1
    Great idea, Tks.
  • BritPunk BIG BAD... 2012/06/10 16:35:20
    BritPunk
    +1
    Yep, seem he learned the same tactics about removing fire escapes and overcrowding etc.
  • BIG BAD... BritPunk 2012/06/10 19:29:07
    BIG BAD JOHN R.
    +1
    Hi MS BRIT PINK, just another ploy to force people from their homes.
  • Jackie G - Poker Playing Pa... 2012/06/10 16:09:51 (edited)
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    Jackie G - Poker Playing Patriot
    +1
    Slum Lord are ! - The penalties for violations are not heavy enough to force repairs and, in many instances, the land is worth more than the buildings; add in that laws have been made to only favor the renter (rent control for example and onerous laws to combat when trying to oust bad tenants), taxes are huge and continue to rise, rents cannot be raised, and, in some areas, renters destroy the buildings.



    So the answer is to make violations very tough on owners, allow owners to toss out those who vandalize and destroy the property, realize that rents must go up to keep pace with taxes, repair costs etc. and set up a system to "garnishee" (or something similar) monies from owners for repairs left unprepared for more than 2 months.
  • Sister Jean 2012/06/10 16:01:40
    NO, THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO LIVE IN THEIR SLUM PROPERTY.
    Sister Jean
  • BIG BAD JOHN R. 2012/06/10 16:00:53
    NO, THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO LIVE IN THEIR SLUM PROPERTY.
    BIG BAD JOHN R.
    +1
    People like this are the true scum of the earth.

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