I was living a sweet 2 bedroom condo on the Upper West Side for an obscenely low sum of money. I got it through a nice lady I knew from the local church. But when he realized how much more money he could get for the place, instead of giving me thirty days notice, he had his mother-in-law call at 2 AM one night and threaten me with a cop rousting me out of the flat if I wasn’t gone in three days.
Since I had no lease, I thought I’d better do what she said. I was lucky I had somewhere I could crash until I found a new place. What I didn’t know was that because I’d already lived at the condo for 2 years, I had every right to get a proper eviction notice. The last I heard, dude’s wife left him and he can’t get stable tenants. They’ll say they can pay what he wants and then renege. And he lost his house in Queens. So now he can’t get as much rent as he wanted anyway, because he has to live at the co-op. That’s what you get for trying to scam me out of my rights! OK, that other stuff probably would’ve happened to him anyway, but seriously. Siccing the bat-in-law on me? That’s low.
Ha-ha! I live in a better neighborhood now! Cheaper too!