They're a bunch
of thugs
CitiApartments/Skyline
agents use a variety of tactics to try to scare tenants into moving out, usually
so they can obtain higher rents. These tactics include
- Showing up at tenant's doors late at night with a couple of big guys, for
"inspections"
- Snooping around tenants' apartments on false pretenses like inspections,
and then looking for things they can use against tenants
- Telling tenants "we can do this the easy way, or the hard way"
- setting up tables in the lobby with a photo copier and demanding ID from
tenants
- putting notices up saying tenants aren't allowed in the building
- refusing to repair elevators in buildings full of seniors
- telling tenants they will call the FBI, homeland security, or immigration
on them
- (in at least one case) showing up at a tenants' door wearing fatigues and
a firearm
- pretending they didn't receive rent and then issuing evictions for lack
of payment of rent
- issuing evictions for roommates "in violation of lease" when roommates
are legal tenants
- refusing to pay interest on security deposits
- telling immigrants or people of color that their "money isn't good
here"
- videotaping tenants as they walk out of their doors
- letting bedbug epidimics run unabated
- doing construction on buildings in such an irritating way that tenants are
forced to leave
- demanding meetings with tenants at the church and market office
- trying to impose draconian house rules on tenants
- trying to require that tenants tell them when they're leaving town
- issuing evictions when tenants leave town for the weekend
- issuing evictions for messy apartments
- requiring tenants to hand deliver their checks
- failing to fix the heat
- claiming tenants are "nuisances" and then offering them market
rate rooms in other buildings