Worlds words landlord

Bard

From http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1062363,00.html :

World's Worst Landlord?

A heartless New York landlord is suing relatives of a September 11 victim, claiming she is owed £18,000 in unpaid rent.

Denise Lyman said tenant Danielle Kousoulis, killed when hijacked planes ploughed into the World Trade Centre, should have given three months notice before leaving her flat.

Ms Kousoulis, 29, signed a £1,700-a-month lease for the city apartment 10 days before dying in the disaster.

She worked on the 104th floor of the World Trade Centre's north tower as a vice president for trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

Greedy

Her family have been told by the the landlord she is an unpaid creditor and will be taken to court, America's CBS News reported under the headline "The world's worst Landlord?".

"We're going through enough without having to go through this as well," Danielle's mother, Zoe, said.

"I can't see how greedy people can be."

Under New York law, a tenancy agreement does not automatically end when a tenant dies.

The New York Daily News reported that one of the complaints against the dead woman was that she failed to give three months notice that she was leaving.

The family also claim Lyman refused to let them into the apartment to get a hairbrush for a DNA sample to identify any remains. The family finally obtained the sample with the assistance of the police.

Shocking

Attorney Jack Lester, who specializes in real estate law, told CBS News: "I think it's outrageous from a legal standpoint, and it's even worse from a moral and humane standpoint.

"It's shocking that she would have no regard for the survivors of the people that perished in the worst attack on American soil."

Some people, eh?

Humanity as we know it is surely lacking seriously in... humanity.

Clintons Cat

but if New York law specifically makes the provision that death does not end a tenency agreement,why should victims of sept the 11 be treated differently to people who die Suddenly in less sensational circumstances?Why does claiming rent off reletives of a deceased victim of sept 11th make a landlord any worse than one who does the same off reletives of a car crash for example.

I think it sucks either way.

Bard

Exceptions can be made. The law is a bunch of arse.

eth0_

There's already a thread about this, bard

Clintons Cat

So will the gobshiet lawyer branding this woman the worlds worst landlady be forfeiting his legal fee?
Somehow i very much doubt it.
As for the Worlds worst landlords well i think shes a long way down the list,how about the thousands that fail to check and maintain gas appliences in their tennents houses putting their tennants at risk from murderous carbon dioxide fumes is she worse than them?i hardly think so.
When it comes to the worlds worst landlord is she in the same league as Fred and Rosemary West? hardly.

So strip away the hyperbole and what do you have ? a little old lady asking for what she is due under new york law.
Greedy and insensitive yes-Evil no.