He went inside and did a deal with the lessee, for £3 a week.
Dispatches alleged that landlords ripped off lessees with unfair and "extortionate" repair bills, and engaged in questionable profit-sharing deals with contractors.
While there are other offers for potential lessees with less than glistening credit scores, the best deals are usually reserved for customers with scores of about 710 or higher.
Pathways and other housing first organizations help the new lessees connect with whatever government benefits they might be eligible for, which in Thompson's case is a monthly Supplemental Security Income check.
In several instances, lessees and owners with outstanding loans, mileage charges and theft insurance coverage gave their vehicles to middlemen, then reported their vehicles missing or stolen, the authorities said.
For landlords, profit margins are often wafer-thin; a 2009 report by the Commons business and enterprise committee found that 78% of lessees were dissatisfied with their "tie" to big pub companies.
On Tuesday, just before the Assembly adjourned, John Jay LaValle, the Brookhaven town supervisor, sent Mr. Englebright a letter asking whether Mr. Englebright's recent meeting with a delegation of cottage lessees indicated that he intended to try to amend the law.
A. Arthur I. Weinstein, a Manhattan lawyer who is also vice president of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums, said that most proprietary leases prohibit tenant-shareholders from allowing odors to escape into the building, or to do "anything which will interfere with the rights of other lessees or unreasonably annoy them".
For the MacAulay portion the report stated: "1000 acres, Alexander McAula: stone house and bawn; 2 freeholders, 9 lessees; able to produce 30 men with arms".
The suit, filed in Federal District Court here, seeks to have the 12 leases set aside until the lessees -- mostly oil companies -- comply with the law by providing adequate environmental analyses.
