The company said it respects all ongoing contracts, including rent reductions, and once these expire, reviews each tenant case-by-case.
Her mother was a volunteer mediator of landlord-tenant cases and other disputes for Cluster, a community service organization in Yonkers.
That law, he said, was intended to make the administration of landlord-tenant cases more efficient, less time-consuming and less costly to the parties.
Ms. McGuire, the other lawyer retained by Ms. Romea, said that applying the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to landlord-tenant cases made sense from both a legal and a practical point of view.
Ernest Belzaguy, first deputy chief clerk of the Civil Court, said that out of about 300,000 landlord-tenant cases filed each year, only about 10,000 are housing-part proceedings that begin with the filing of an order to show cause.
In 2006, he earned the same salary, and according to disclosure forms, he made at least $250,000 from the sale of the same property in Florida and at least $5,112 from investments. Herbert Rubin, a partner at the law firm Herzfeld & Rubin, which handles many landlord-tenant cases, said the property sale and investment income would count toward the $175,000 cap under city rent regulations.
Knowledge is power and especially in landlord-tenant cases.
"We've had other landlord-tenant cases, but nothing to the level of what we've seen here," he said.
For instance, if the home is located in Texas or Florida, these two states tend to lean on the side of the Landlord when it comes to landlord-tenant cases.
State law cases involve the bulk of personal injury, breach of contract, divorce, and landlord-tenant cases.
