TakenForce

TakenForce t1_je692fb wrote

Let me explain to you why you are incorrect.

Many LLs are using holdover eviction (no cause) proceedings to evict nonpaying tenants because evicting a tenant for nonpayment is a big shit show in today's courts.

The proceedings for a non-payment eviction will stop if the tenant files for an ERAP (which may take several months to a year to process and for you to get payment). At the point you receive the money from ERAP, you would already be another 6 months down the hole and have a tenant still squatting on your property. In addition, accepting ERAP payments means you are not allowed to evict a tenant for ANOTHER YEAR. All of which, the government is essentially giving these squatters 18+ months of rent free living at YOUR expense.

Landlords will be more receptive of a good-cause eviction bill if NYS does something to make the process for evicting non-payments go faster. Currently, the pro-tenant laws in NY make LL absorb the cost of no rent for 1+ year and lawmakers are trying to make it even worse.

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