Brooklyn, New York Landlord Liable for $3.3 million For Harassing Elder Tenants

Prospect Park Residence

Photo: AP

[From article]
The owner of a Brooklyn assisted living facility who came under fire for attempting to evict his elderly patrons — and allegedly trying to force them out through nefarious means — will have to shell out $3.35 million to the remaining tenants as part of a settlement agreement, a Brooklyn judge has ordered.
Prospect Park Residence owner Haysha Deitsch must now pay the remaining five nonagenarians still living in the once-lavish facility the bulk of the settlement in a series of installments.
If he doesn’t stick to the court’s payment schedule, the seniors get more time to move, and more money, said attorney Fred Millett.
The two-year legal saga began in March 2014 when Deitsch abruptly gave his patrons just three months to scram — allegedly so he could sell the lucrative real estate to a development company.
A number, fearing eviction, did move out — but seven tenants stood their ground and fought the order.
Originally dubbed “the Prospect Park 7” the remaining five will have to relocate by August 31st of this year. Two of the original plaintiffs have died over the course of the legal battle.
The tenants originally filed suit claiming the eviction went against their tenant agreements, and didn’t offer enough support for relocation.
Brooklyn Judge Wayne Saitta ordered that Deitsch keep the residence open during the case, but residents soon claimed he was feeding them rotten food, hiking rent, and depriving them of central air-conditioning during the hot summer months.
Deitsch even filed a $50 million countersuit in March of this year, claiming the residents were taking part in a “scheme” to obstruct his sale of the property.
The heft of the settlement will go the five still residing in the dilapidated 134-unit living facility, while a small portion will be given to 4 former residents who moved out under Deitsch’s threat of eviction but were still involved in the suit.
“It is definitely a win for our clients,” said attorney Fred Millet, who represented the plaintiffs. “With the settlement they were able to make plans to move elsewhere, and the money to make that happen.”
But the elderly and soon-to-be-homeless tenants will face some obstacles, the attorney said.
“The problem is there aren’t a lot of adult care facilities in Brooklyn,” he explained. “And while this settlement gives them the time and money to make the transition happen, a lot of these facilities are very expensive. Prospect Park residence was comparatively affordable, so that might make it more difficult.”
Millet says his firm and the plaintiffs will continue with their suit against the Department of Health, who green-lighted Deitsch’s original eviction plan.
Meanwhile, the whole payout will go to the seniors, as Millet and his firm represented them pro bono.

http://nypost.com/2016/06/01/forcing-elderly-out-will-cost-brooklyn-building-owner-millions/

Forcing elderly out will cost Brooklyn building owner millions
By Emily Saul
New York Post
June 1, 2016 | 4:01pm

Updated(4): Police Continue Criminal Harassment, Relentless Character Assassination

Posted March 15, 2016 ; Last updated March 23, 2016 9:27 PM ET




[Updated March 23, 2016]
One day after a terror attack in Belgium, where 34 died, and hundreds were injured, the same day as there were three persons shot in Boston, MA, two shot in Cambridge, MA, one dead, the other seriously wounded, there was a change in personnel in the 45-year campaign of harassment in my life. The geniuses who determine the primary occupants of a vacant apartment provided by my landlord to facilitate surveillance and harassment, was changed again. The Harvard University campus police employee was replaced for a few hours by a black homosexual who continued the behavior conditioning campaign trying to make me into a homosexual. He was replaced by a police employee from Somerville, MA apparently  another woman. She began with the usual list of events trying to repeat them. Beginning with the police frame-up in 1990, she tried to cause me to experience a heart attack or a stroke, keeping me awake for 4 hours with intense non stop harassment. (Nice people.) Next will be, using young women as bait, followed by young men as bait, when I do not go for the women. The building superintendents employed by Harvard University enthusiastically assist the campaign keeping me under 24/7 surveillance. It is called liberal elitist priorities. When there is violence, focus on a 70-year-old white man who survived 45 years of government criminal abuses. Blame and attack the victim is how they interpret the golden rule. The $2 billion taxpayer funded human services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's phrase) stands by and watches this "ungrateful" elder who dares to criticize the noble, caring, well intentioned professional human service providers, receive his punishment. "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." Eric Hoffer

[Updated March 22, 2016]
In view of the latest terror attack in Brussels, Belgium, and the heightened security in the United States, abuses by local police employees conducting relentless criminal abuses of a 70-year-old man in Cambridge is even more obscene. Harassment campaign was re-joined on March 22, 2016 by black women employed by Harvard University campus police. The circle of criminal abuse continues to rotate.

[Updated March 21, 2016]
Sunday and Monday March 20-21, 2016 the California crime Syndicate resumed the role as lead harassment group. They resumed their behavior conditioning campaign trying to make me into a homosexual and maintaining prohibiting me from speaking with heterosexual women. They repeated propaganda "He's a high school drop out." They deny I have a BA degree from Columbia University in the City of New York. They strictly prohibit access to legal assistance to obtain relief from their criminal campaign and abuse of police powers. It is their continuing corruption of the police and courts in three states. They insist I embrace their character assassination and enjoy their daily criminal harassment, disturbing my sleep and keeping me under 24/7 surveillance. They are depraved at best. But what about all the other groups and uncorrupted law enforcement and taxpayer funded human services agencies, paid to protect vulnerable persons, who stand by and watch? Are they less depraved? 

[Updated March 20, 2016]
Friday, March 18, 2016, while doing errands, suddenly there was a parade of attractive young women everywhere I looked. Immediately I suspected Communists from New York and the California crime Syndicate were trying to have me arrested for talking to heterosexual women. Both organizations have enforced for 40 years, a ban on me doing that. The alternative punishment was depriving me of sleep for three days. It is one reason why there was a steady stream of young women as bait. There was always the threat of attempted talking to heterosexual women.

In addition to relentless character assassination, also called saturation slander, it was part of a continuing behavior conditioning campaign trying to make me into a homosexual. That was due to one element of character assassination (for me), also called false light, saying "He's a homosexual Communist." The FBI assisted the Communists enforcing that profile. It is why, in 2016, after 45 years of this campaign, there are still so many people, some of them who were not born when the campaign began, who believe "He's a homosexual." Some homosexuals who knew me 40 years ago, told me, "We know you are not a homosexual." But that does not explain why so many others who were not born when this began still think of me as a homosexual. Some people told me, "It doesn't matter what you do." That explains why they ignore what I say about the basic attribute of sexual preference, no less the many other facts of my life, which are and have been distorted by character assassination for so many years in several states.


One homosexual employed by the Kennedy cult said to me, "Why do you care what other people think about you?" It was the founder of the Kennedy cult, Joseph P. Kennedy, who taught his sons, "It doesn't matter what you are. It matters what people think you are." But that is only for the elite. Ordinary citizens can be slandered and should be happy with it?

On late Friday, March 18, 2016 and Saturday, March 19, 2016, one more Harvard University homosexual player explained to me, he (or she) knows the black homosexual employed by Harvard University campus police, who harassed me, for about ten years. I was prepared for more abuse from this new player who studies to be an architect. Instead of young women as bait, this new player brought young men as bait. It is a repeating pattern from the hateful and hostile people who surround me, who think they are "the smartest man in the room" and do not know me at all.

They rely on police records, which are freely passed around, though they remain unavailable to me. I do not know what they say. I am only able to guess from what these creepy depraved people do to me each day, over and over, again and again. When a new team of psychologist, lawyer, police employee and crime family associate begin their harassment campaign, they perform the same repeating pattern. It must come from some file or record kept by someone somewhere.

This raises the issue of police and government files in general. If television criminal justice features have any factual basis, police and federal law enforcement rely heavily on their computer files. But how accurate are they? To the government it does not matter. If the record says a person did something it is believed. An arrest becomes a conviction. One study found the national crime information center files are about 40 percent inaccurate. It has little effect on the police and those who rely on the files. But for a civilian who has a file it can be the end of a normal existence. That is one reason for the FOIA to allow civilians to see what the government says about them. But my several requests were ignored and denied, as if there were no files.

Some people told me that the government destroyed some of the files. I do not know which ones and which remain on the system. One record which I know about I described in a previous post, i.e., the police frame-up in Cambridge, MA in 1990. See the brief account at this link

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2016/02/publishing-interruptus-again-february.html

This is one element of the ongoing repeating character assassination which takes up my life every day. One day it is someone who purchased a copy of the personal journals which the FBI stole from me in 1973. They sold copies to local police and crime families who used them to ridicule and to humiliate me. That continues in 2016. The next day the FBI propaganda, "He's a retired drug dealer." appears again. Those who believe what the FBI says, accepts that as fact, and treats me as if I was what the FBI says. Police abuse me expecting me to fear them because of the false criminal background. Frequently persons who are caught up in these lies say of me, "He's a ex-con." People with convictions who were in prison seek me out as if I was their compadre. But it is not true.

Worse is that actual drug dealers think of me as their ally, their colleague. They freely associate with me. Without my awareness, the FBI begins surveillance of these people who were misled. When they are arrested the FBI points to me as a way to get the criminals to do what the FBI wants to do but is unable to do, i.e., to eliminate me. They are clever and cute. So far they are unsuccessful. The criminals learn quickly they were fooled.

This shows a serious malfunction of government seldom discussed by journalists and politicians. Not only do police and government agencies not protect vulnerable persons from criminal abuses, they participate in the abuse. It is not just the FBI and police who harass vulnerable persons. One FBI agent explained, "We are not a protection agency." Another said of me, "He'll come around." Huh? Around to what? Pleading with the FBI to protect me from criminals who were misled by the FBI to attack me? Another agent asked me, "What have you done for us lately." as if I were going to help them do what they are unable to do. 

From 1973 when government psychiatrists drugged me, until about 1988 the FBI used me as bait for fighting organized crime in three states. They scared me and left me dangling in an impaired state of mind due to the criminal abuses of the psychiatrists. That is a despicable abuse by the FBI. They expect me to help them abuse me more? What do they expect? Should I pretend to be the retired drug dealer to attract drug dealers so they can arrest them? How does that repeating pattern of abuse help me regain a semblance of a life? All it does is to keep me from enjoying the ordinary rights of being an American citizen. Local and state agencies act in a similar fashion. Complaints to taxpayer funded protection agencies, are ignored. They refuse to investigate, and instead send out their investigators to investigate and to harass me. It happened again and again. I no longer seek help from taxpayer funded agencies who are paid to protect vulnerable persons. 

Ever since government psychiatrists drugged me, the official government designation was "He's mentally ill." Keep in mind  that mental illnesses are incurable. Psychiatry treats their made up illnesses, they do not cure them. It is a profitable business model. Ordinary civilians believe, encouraged by the psychiatric industry and the humans services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term), once mentally ill, forever mentally ill. It is one reason why police and the FBI love psychiatry. No due process protections. 

An impaired state did not prevent police, crime families, Communists and the FBI from conducting brutal harassment campaigns causing me to move 55 times over 22 years in three states. One American criminal prevented me from visiting Canada, telling border agents some element of slander. I was stopped and questioned. The agent said to me, "It is better if you told me than if I found out myself. " I did not understand what he was talking about. Subsequently I suspected he thought I was wanted for a crime in the United States and was trying to leave the country to escape prosecution. It is a pattern I read about occasionally. It was disappointing but indicated how thorough the surveillance by police, crime families and whoever else was participating, was.

After fifteen years of being used by the FBI to fight organized crime, without being compensated, I was punished instead. It taught me that the FBI cannot be trusted. Who knew the FBI actively abused and harassed vulnerable persons? That was before the scandal in the Boston field office when it was exposed that FBI agents framed four white men for murder. They were sentenced to death. Two died in prison. Two were released after 30 years. Taxpayers paid their families $101 million for the criminal abuses of the FBI. No FBI agents were punished and they suffered no penalties.

The same FBI office was exposed as protecting the boss of the Boston crime family who admitted killing eleven people. He was a fugitive for sixteen years after his handler alerted him he was about to be indicted. Sixty deaths are attributed to his gang over twenty years some of them Boston agents allegedly assisted. One agent was convicted of homicide in a Florida state court. Dozens of FBI agents appeared in court to support him. One agent died in prison awaiting trial for homicide. No others were punished. That was after a "thorough" investigation by John Durham of the Justice Department.

The two above-mentioned scandals were reported by journalists. There were several books written, and at least one film. But journalists and politicians remain silent about serious abuses of vulnerable persons like myself. I do not think they invented their techniques and psychological abuses just for me. Journalists promote propaganda by criminals, politicians and police. They do not expose it. They help cover up criminal abuses by government officials. See, e.g., how complete the silence is about the criminal abuses of power by the White House and his previous Secretary of State? If they can cover that up who cares about a 70-year-old white male after 45 years of character assassination and criminal abuse by crime families, protected by the government?

Just because journalists do not report the abuse it does not change the fact it happened. Too many dumbed down journalists and politicians believe that reality is what journalists report. If it was not on television it did not happen. If the New York Times did not report it, it did not happen. But also if the New York Times reported it, it was true. Ahem!

It becomes about credibility. Crazy people are not to be believed. So it is important to discredit anyone who may have damaging information. Discrediting is now the method of covering up government abuses. They no longer kill people which gives credibility to what they were saying. That is one more reason why psychiatrists have a leading role in major media. They claim they know more than others and they never lie. Ahem!!!! They will provide scientific studies which prove that the genes of psychiatrists have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. Teehee.

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[Original post March 15, 2016]
One fact omitted from earlier updates on 45 years of police criminal harassment. See, Publishing Interruptus, Again February 20, 2016 at this link
http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2016/02/publishing-interruptus-again-february.html

The seven appointed defense lawyers, in the 1990 police frame-up in 1990 in Cambridge, MA, were black police, pretending to be lawyers. Like this fact, there are many more omitted from this extremely brief account of this event and others. Some events have been entirely omitted. One is that the FBI had me under surveillance when I was a student in law school. In fact the CIA and the FBI had me under surveillance when I was a student at Columbia University in 1968-70. There is a book which remains unwritten due to relentless harassment and character assassination, which keeps me isolated from ordinary civilians, no less publishers, literary agents and editors. One CIA agent said of me, "He lived to talk about it." Yet the only people with who I interact and have conversations more than greetings, are people with no formal education, and those who have no knowledge of how abusive governments can be. One long time former friend said to me when I began telling a part of the story, "We live a quiet life." She meant, "I don't want to hear about it."

In 1973 government psychiatrists drugged me for 80 consecutive days using hallucinogens contrary to law. I was not under the care of any psychiatrist. There was no court order permitting forced drugging. I never volunteered as a human subject for any medical research experiment. The FBI stole my personal journals. They sold copies to local police and to crime families, who in turn used them to ridicule and to humiliate me for many years. It continues today. After many years they usually find more suckers to purchase copies. These dumbed down police and criminals use them to try to recreate events I described in the journals. That is happening again in 2016 with some clueless Communists from Washington state who for 40 years told everyone I knew, know and met, "He's homeless and mentally ill." Now they have more to use for their unique form of manipulation.

Saturday March 11, 2016 a woman police employee became the latest primary criminal harasser. I suspect she is from Somerville, MA employed by the Somerville police. She may be a psychologist, or under direction of one. As usual there is in addition to a police employee and a psychologist, always a lawyer and an associate of the local crime family as members of each new team when it begins harassing me. As explained to me many years ago "women are more vicious than men." She began with the usual protocol, a non stop period of sleep deprivation, this one lasted four and one half hours, keeping me awake. It was the initial attempt to provoke violence, trying to repeat the police frame-up of 1990. That was followed by shorter periods of sleep disturbances. It appears that there is a list of events that each team of criminal harassers brings to the program when they join the now 45 year campaign to torment me by intentional infliction of psychological and emotional stress. During one period in New Jersey there was a standing offer of $50,000 to anyone who could drive me crazy. I was never able to understand the need for that. Relentless character assassination always includes "He's crazy." Considering the effectiveness of the saturation slander, why offer extra money? It was one more element of overkill as one observer noted many years later.

After expressing my concerns about crime families taking over the harassment and surveillance, the crime families were removed and replaced by Communist police employees (Harvard University campus police associates?), from Washington State. The harassment remained intense forcing me to continue reverse sleep patterning. That is a tactic usually reserved for prisoners of war and enemy combatants. It was reportedly used on prisoners in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. More recent reports about prison guards in Mexico disturbing the sleep of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the famous Sinaloan, Mexico drug cartel leader who escaped from prison twice. It raises the question that perhaps these are military technicians conducting the harassment on behalf of agencies of the US government. Psychologists direct the abuse, train and choose specific manners of abuse each day.

That is the long term pattern of 45 years of criminal abuses. It is as if there is a circle of psychopathic criminals, with me in the center. They take turns attacking me. One, then the next, then the next. Until the circle has been completed. Then it begins all over again. Sometimes the individuals change but the circle remains full and continually attacks me. One thing all the circle members share is a hatred or hostility of me. Most if not all of them are unknown to me. But that does not mitigate the hatred or hostility. They are taught a long list of character assassination broadcast over the past 45 years. Usually one or two items are sufficient to inspire hatred. Included are "He's a racist." "He's a retired drug dealer." "He's homeless. " "He's mentally ill." There are many others, which are never revealed to me. I'm only able to guess at the general subjects.

The teams usually consist of man-hating feminists and lesbians, rape victims, psychologists, psychiatric students, police employees, FBI informants, white hating black men and women. The California crime Syndicate and their government associates led the harassment for 47 years beginning at Columbia University in New York in 1968. They are joined by the Kennedy cult which adopted me in 1968, and the midwestern outfit which was paid to protect me for a few years. They did not protect me well. They robbed me, and abused me as much as the Communists and the police did from 1973 to 1979. Communists from seven states join in the rotation, including New York, New Jersey, Florida, Washington state, Massachusetts New Hampshire, Connecticut.

[More to come if you can stand it.)

New York Lawyer Arrested For Removing Landlord's Cameras Used To Watch Elderly Tenant, Client

Attorney Arthur Schwartz

Photo: Steven Hirsch
[From article]
“I am the guardian for a [93-year-old] woman who is being harassed by her landlord. All I did was abate the harassment and turn the materials over to the AG’s ,” said Arthur Schwartz. “I don’t think I needed permission.”
He was released from Manhattan Criminal Court on his own recognizance.
Last month, Schwartz removed the cameras at Ruth Berk’s rent-stabilized apartment at 95 Christopher St. because he believed the landlord was using them to intimidate her to move out. Building manager Sophia Lamas filed a complaint alleging he swiped $4,000 worth of equipment.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/15/lawyer-in-cuffs-after-removing-cameras-from-elderly-womans-building/

Lawyer in cuffs after removing cameras from elderly woman’s building
By Lia Eustachwich
New York Post
July 15, 2015 | 12:34am

Harvard University Employees Harass Elder Tenant

Published October 10, 2014 3:43 PM ET; Last updated October 15, 2014 7:33 PM ET

Recall that I never requested any work from Harvard University Housing. They created a fantasy to justify an illegal entry to my premises. It was a trespass, perhaps a burglary. But with a $36 billion endowment and an army of media image makers it is easy to fool the public, the police and the politicians, who are always eager to obey wealthy powerful images.  

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hres_yardi_prod@harvard.edu	Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:34 AM
To: roybercaw
Please do not Reply to this email as this account is not monitored for incoming mail.   Information is now available for the work request you submitted for: 85-02 Go check apartment temp   The status of this service request is currently:  Completed   Additional information about this request can be viewed on line.   HU Housing tenants living in affiliated housing should log in at http://www.huhousing.harvard.edu as a registered user.   Harvard University Housing

Updated October 10, 2014 4:45 PM ET

[Sent Friday October 10, 2014 at about 12:10 PM via City Inspectional Services online form.]

Unless Harvard University (my landlord) has an exception as per CMR it is my belief that heat must be provided to residential tenants beginning on Sep. 15th each year. They do provide heat continuously to other tenants. But for some reason several times per year my unit (#2) does not get heat when the rest of my building at 85 Prescott Street, Cambridge does get heat. On Friday October 10, 2014 there was heat to other units but not to mine. When I call to complain the receptionist usually asks me, "Why are you the only one?" I write and speak about Harvard University criticizing them on occasion. Perhaps that is why. The persons also tamper with electricity, cable TV service, DSL online computer services, and hot water. It is how they express their dissatisfaction. Harvard University employees (police and superintendents) regularly retaliate for my protected legal expression. I'm aware that it is a violation of the Massachusetts civil rights felony statute. But police do not respond to my complaints. If you set up an appointment to inspect the problem I suspect it will be a waste of your and my time. Whoever is tampering with the heat system will restore the heat when it is supposed to be on before you arrive. Perhaps someone from your office speaking with a responsible person at Harvard may solve the problem. Thank you for your attention.

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At about 1:00 PM I went to do an errand, returning at about 2:30 PM. I saw a paper tag hanging on my door handle, from Harvard University Housing. It was a report of an entry to my apartment for "maintenance." But I have never given Harvard University permission to enter my premises without permission except for an emergency. The tag stated that "TA" was in my apartment at about "1:35" [PM?] on date "10/10." The message written is "Apt temperature is 75 degree. Check apt temperature for report of apartment being cold."

This appears to be evidence of two crimes. One is criminal trespass if not burglary. Entering my premises without permission is a crime. Checking temperature is not an emergency.



Secondly when I complain to the City of Cambridge's Inspectional Services department using their online form, or any method, it takes about 7-14 days to get a response. Unless the Harvard University criminals who harass me every day committing repeated felonies were monitoring my computer communications, which I am aware that they do, it is not possible for the city to contact Harvard and have a Harvard employee respond to my complaint in one hour. The City of Cambridge closes at noon on Fridays. That adds another layer of delay.




But also I did not complain about the apartment being cold as per the above message. In the early morning hours it was cold. But at 1 in the afternoon with the sun shining, blasting on my windows the apartment gets warm. The complaint was that there was heat in other apartments but not mine on that day.

This suggests that someone is tampering with my computer transmissions which is a felony under the US Code. It is one of several daily felonies these police criminals commit every day.

But the Inspectional Services Department has limited jurisdiction.




[According to the weather service the temperature for Boston at about 11:54 PM on Thursday October 9, 2014 was 57 fahrenheit. At 8:54 AM on Friday October 10, 2014 it was 54 fahrenheit.  At 12:54 PM Friday October 10, 2014 it was 62.

At about 12:49 PM, 39 minutes after I sent a form message to the City Inspectional Services, the below email arrived in my inbox. Thus Harvard received  a "work request" from unknown and responded within 54 minutes. But again without permission entering my premises for a non emergency.] 

Roy Bercaw

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hres_yardi_prod@harvard.edu	Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:49 PM
To: roybercaw
Please do not Reply to this email as this account is not monitored for incoming mail.   Information is now available for the work request you submitted for: 85-02 Go check apartment temp   The status of this service request is currently:  Scheduled   Additional information about this request can be viewed on line.   HU Housing tenants living in affiliated housing should log in at http://www.huhousing.harvard.edu as a registered user.   Harvard University Housing

Selective Enforcement of Laws

When my landlord changed the locks to my premises with my rent fully paid, I obtained a state court order for re-entry with provision that I could break the locks. When I did so after showing the order to local police they arrested me. It is only one of hundreds of instances where state and U.S. laws were used against me and did not protect me when I was crime victim and abused by police. 

http://nypost.com/2014/09/02/deadbeat-brooklyn-pol-gets-her-landlord-arrested/

‘Deadbeat’ Brooklyn pol gets her landlord arrested
By Georgett Roberts and Sophia Rosenbaum
September 2, 2014 | 10:09pm

Online Sublet Turns Into Nightmare Tenant

Two stories about tenants from hell

[From article]
The Thompsons, whose main residence is in Wiltshire, had been renting out their flat in London’s trendy Shoreditch for some time to people they believed to be good tenants.
However, it emerged that their tenants had tried to make a quick profit by subletting the property through popular room rental site Airbnb.
[. . .]
However, critics like Katherine and Jon Thompson are concerned that too few checks are made by the company to safeguard the security — financial and personal — of property owners and holidaymakers alike.
Police were unable to evict the 25 teenage revellers on New Year’s Day as they had a document from Airbnb proving they had paid rent.
And Airbnb did not, certainly in the immediate aftermath, offer a great deal of support to the Thompsons as they tried to find out what had been going on in their London apartment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2700812/Would-dare-turn-spare-room-hotel-strangers-Millions-website-thats-global-hit-But-badly-wrong.html

Would you dare turn your spare room into a hotel for strangers? Millions do on a website that's a global hit. But it can go badly wrong
By BETH HALE and HELEN CARROLL
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 20:02 EST, 21 July 2014 | UPDATED: 03:26 EST, 22 July 2014

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[From article]
The San Francisco-based rehabilitation therapist has used Airbnb without issue for about a year so when 'Maksym' asked to rent the condo for an extended period - a total of 44 days - she thought it would be fine.
[. . .]
He threatened to press charges for 'blackmail and damages caused by your negligence and malicious misconduct, including $3,800 PID Espresso machine as well as medical bills for my brother's hospital visit after he got sick here drinking unfiltered tap water.'
Tschogl researched the situation online and was advised by other landlords to hire a lawyer, who told her that in California, once someone rents a property for 30 days, that person is considered a tenant on a month-to-month lease. She couldn't just ask authorities to kick him out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2700705/Airbnb-user-turns-squatter-Woman-facing-legal-battle-vacationer-Palm-Springs-home.html

Airbnb user turns squatter: Woman facing legal battle to get vacationer out of her Palm Springs home
Cory Tschogl, 39, says she agreed to rent her 600-square-foot condo to 'Maksym' for 44 days
But the day he checked in he demanded a refund because the tap water was cloudy
She agreed because she suspected he was shady and contacted Airbnb who failed to respond for two days
When the renter refused to leave the condo she begged Airbnb for help through scores of emails and phone calls but the accommodation marketplace failed to get him out
The guest now has renters' protection under California law because he's been there longer than 30 days
It'll take three to six months, a lawyer and thousands of dollars to evict him
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 18:06 EST, 21 July 2014 | UPDATED: 18:13 EST, 21 July 2014

City Council Focused On Net Zero Buildings and Subsidized Tenants

"Simmons’ policy order to develop a contingency plan to ensure that Cambridge residents receiving fully or partially subsidized rent from federal grants would not see their housing jeopardized in the event of another federal government shutdown." City has a budget surplus, and President and Fellows of Harvard College has $32 billion. The City Council should pass an order to appropriate the surplus and Harvard's endowment to pay rent for all persons who can't pay their rent, including  those without subsidies, e.g. unemployed persons.  Maybe the IRS can pay the rents from the fines collected for not joining Obamacare?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/22/council-discusses-net-zero/#

Net Zero Crowds Out Shutdown at Council Meeting
By ANJA C. NILSSON,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 22, 2013

Wife Dead After Landlord Serves Eviction Notice

Here is one more violent death (Aurora CO; Texas A&M; Empire State Building), after an eviction notice. Journalists usually blame guns or mental illness as the first and second causes. Is it now time to look at evictions and landlords as the cause of homicides? 

[From article]
The couple were about to be booted from the home after being served with an eviction notice Aug. 27.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/li_fire_that_killed_woman_being_0NCRy2vv9yyuml2LzgaLJM

Cops question husband in 'arson' of LI home after fleeing flames: sources
By BOB FREDERICKS and LORENA MONGELLI
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:09 PM, September 3, 2012 Posted: 2:04 PM, September 3, 2012

Response To Harvard University President's Heating Guidelines

Thank you for revealing what Harvard's heating guidelines are. But there are state laws which establish heating requirements for MA landlords including The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Over the past 17 years I've been a tenant of Harvard's President I encountered numerous occasions when there was no heat often on weekends and at night. A call to your delightful emergency phone often gets a response of "Why are you the only one?" It appears that many of
your tenants are unable or unwilling to speak out about lack of heat. When I complain I get harassed, humiliated and ridiculed by employees of the landlord. That is also a violation of US laws. I am aware, very well aware that for Harvard's President and in Cambridge, laws are optional. Just want you to know that I enjoy reading about your guidelines when they conflict with state and US  laws. It is more sources of humor in this charming city and University. Thanks again for the laughs.

[Memo sent on Thursday November 29, 2012]
HARVARD UNIVERSITY OFFICE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY TEMPERATURE POLICY


OBJECTIVE:
The Harvard University Temperature policy provides a framework to assist building managers and occupants in achieving a healthy, productive, and safe working environment while reducing energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions to the lowest practicable level.

POLICY:
During the winter heating season (October 16-May 14), occupied spaces will be heated to 68-71 F; each School or Department will determine their specific targets. During the summer cooling season (May 15- October 15),
occupied spaces will be cooled to 74-76¿ (where air conditioning equipment currently exists); each School of Department will determine their specific targets. Buildings with stringent humidity requirements may operate below this range. Occupants are also reminded that personal space heaters or heating or cooling devices may present a safety risk and are prohibited from use unless provided by the building manager.

Notes:
These space temperature ranges are based on established standards for human comfort, productivity and safety. Harvard building occupants will be made aware of the specific space temperature targets and feedback systems in place in their buildings. Occupants are encouraged to work with local building management staff to achieve acceptable temperature, humidity and ventilation levels. Maximum comfort and efficiency will be achieved when occupants and building managers actively adapt to building conditions through modification of air flow, sunlight, and apparel choices, among other comfort factors. Actual spaces temperatures may vary across Harvard's building due to wide range of space types and building control systems on campus.

Harvard will periodically evaluate this temperature policy based on improvements to building systems; advances in occupant comfort and productivity research; and feedback from occupants.

We look forward to working with building occupants to create a comfortable and energy-conserving environment.

More Harvard Criminal Harassment

On Thursday November 15, 2012 at about 11:00  PM there was no heat in my apartment. Some time the next day heat was restored. Then beginning on Friday November 16, 2012 the heat was above the legal limit. (Below is the Massachusetts state code requirements for providing heat.) My unofficial thermometer which is at about 5 feet and 2 inches above the floor read 85 (with an open window) through Friday and into Monday November 19, 2012. One tenant on  an upper floor reported that apartment was not hot. Other tenants (plural) reported their apartments were hotter than usual. Contrary to all of the effort to save energy, and with all of the high tech regulatory equipment Harvard is wasting energy and keeping the apartments hotter than state code allows. This is a health issue, causing unnecessary stress. This is in addition to the daily harassment from the delightful team of Harvard University campus police employees who disturb my sleep daily. 

Each year Harvard criminals shut the heat to my apartment and then turn it up so that it becomes unhealthy. It does no good to complain to the City government's inspectional services because by the time they arrive in a few days or even hours the heat is back to normal. Calling Harvard's Real Estate Office is another waste of time. It is their employees which coordinate the criminal abuse. It is the real estate employees, and their campus cops who designate who lives above me and who tampers with the heat and how often they wake me up each night. Currently it is every two hours, and some periods every one hour. One city police officer visits every few months to threaten me in case I tell about the 42 years of criminal  abuses. Police, FBI, crime families and Communists took turns conducting the criminal abuse. So the only ones who do not know are ordinary citizens who could care less. They re-elected a criminal charlatan for a second 4-year term. Why would they care about criminal abuse of one white 70-year-old male? They care little to none about 19 homicides by the Boston office of the FBI; and celebrate electing criminals to office in Massachusetts.  It is a state saturated with criminals in government and leadership positions of the prominent universities.

Some people say that the current Harvard feminist President supports the harassment by Harvard employees. I cannot believe that a woman intellectual with impeccable credentials,  standards and  accomplishments would waste one iota of a second on such an insignificant person like me. People who say that Harvard's President would harass a 70-year-old white male who the politicians say is severely disabled, is ludicrous. The Harvard President has much better things to do like fund raising, getting cash money to increase their endowment.

On Sunday November 18, 2012 Harvard University campus (must be rogue) police extended their public spirited surveillance and harassment to the Cambridge Public Library. It is one benefit of their long term infiltration of city government. They can use local offices for their interests contrary to city, state and US laws. Harvard boasts that in the US Congress there are now 43 Harvard graduates. They do not count the larger numbers of elected officials who are misguided, I mean guided when they first get elected by the august Harvard Kennedy School of Government. That is the Harvard school where the charming and intellectually ambitious Paula Broadwell was in the leadership program. She knows how to teach those evil men how to lead.

So back at the Cambridge library, I was using the research facilities when I noticed a man standing and taking pictures with a flash camera. Not just one but many for about 3 minutes. I saw that the librarian who was in that room was easily able to see what he was doing. The reason this is a matter of concern is that a few years ago a man was following me, Now I guess he works for the Harvard campus cops. One day I saw him in the library and had a camera with me. I tried to take his picture. The head reference librarian appeared with one of the custodians who works for the Boston police. She told me that it was a violation of library policy to take pictures of patrons. She warned me I could lose my library privileges. I noticed the custodian watching me carefully as if I were dangerous. I later noticed that this reference librarian was stalking me every time I entered the library. She accused me of bringing coffee into the library when I was carrying an empty reusable cup. I showed her a couple having a picnic on a reference room table. She did nothing. I wrote a letter to the city manager. She left the city.

On this latest occasion I wondered why this man was allowed to openly take pictures when I was threatened with losing privileges for one photo. I got up and went to where the woman librarian was in the room. She pretended she did not know what I was talking about. I knew her for many years and spoke with her in and out of the library. I was disappointed with the way she acted. I asked her if she worked for Harvard. She said, "The FBI." She was ridiculing me. I left after telling her I was disappointed. I thought she was a friend. My mistake.

Then I spoke with an employee at the circulation desk. I explained what I saw and the background story. I told him that in a book about library security the author suggested rules need to be evenly enforced. That is what Harvard and at the library do not do. They focus on me and allow others to openly commit crimes and violate rules. It is a lawless city run by a lawless university. But they use the law and their campus cops to harass me.

Massachusetts State Building Code
410.201:   Temperature Requirements

The owner shall provide heat in every habitable room and every room containing a toilet, shower, or bathtub to at least 68°F (20° C) between 7:00 A.M. and 11:00 P.M. and at least 64°F (17° C) between 11:01 P.M. and 6:59 A.M. every day other than during the period from June 15th to September 15th, both inclusive, in each year except and to the extent the occupant is required to provide the fuel under a written letting agreement.  The temperature shall at no time exceed 78°F (25° C) during the heating season.  The temperature may be read and the requirement shall be met at a height of five feet above floor level on a wall any point more than five feet from the exterior wall. The number of days per year during which heat must be provided in accordance with 105 CMR 410.000 may be increased or decreased through a variance granted in accordance with the provisions of 105 CMR 410.840 notwithstanding the prohibitions of the first clause of the first sentence of 105 CMR 410.840(A).

Landlord and Super Took Sex For Rent

One comment posted under this story says it sounds like Obama's jobs program.

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New dirt on pervy UWS super
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New York Post
Last Updated: 1:03 AM, December 27, 2011
Posted: 12:53 AM, December 27, 2011

Mean Landlord Kills Tenant, Self

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New York Post
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Landlords Pass Property Tax Increases to Tenants.

The state may charge the landlord property taxes, but the tenant pays it through rent.

[From article]
"Silver's conference is dominated by a left-of-center leadership from poor and heavily Democratic New York City districts [. . .] where plans to cap local property taxes mean nothing -- since nobody but landlords pay them anyway."

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Speaker's 'consensus' v. Cuomo
Frederic U. Dicker
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:21 AM, December 6, 2010
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