"They should have saved for a rainy day", cause that's exactly what my landlord said to me, when I told him I lost my job due covid.

The tenants that was willing to pay the $4000 a month have left the state... But real New Yorkers know the value of the apartments and we will not pay $4000 to live in Harlem.. We would just buy a house with our A1 credit.

Isn’t that the plan? Create the problem then step in and take everything

Well, the table has turned. I bet, even with all this depression, that she STILL wouldnt rent me a cheap room. Good luck landlords

Maybe stop charging $4000 a month for a 1 bedroom in Harlem and you'll get tenants

Sooooo when they were gentrifying the area and taking homes from little old ladies, they felt nothing. Now we're supposed to feel sorry for rich people? I feel nothing. We are all feeling this. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Almost everyone I work with has moved out of NYC. Too many Cons over Pros.

They wouldn’t have this issue if the Rents in NYC where more affordable. I hope more ppl move

Stop charging $2000 a month for a studio apt that’s a start

Wat $3400 for a studio? Construction everywhere. Nyc is so garbage.

We’re literally waiting for the collapse so we can buy cheap

god those apartments look like prisons you cant even breathe and just have one window to look outside... NYC really made em like that....

maybe they shouldn't charge 2000+ a month for 450 square feet in a building that hasn't been updated in decades

I'm sorry I'm not crying for anyone some of these people mortgages are $3,000 a month and they charge $3,000 rent for shoe boxes some of them bought buildings with huge bedrooms bathrooms an eat-in kitchens and turn them into multiple Apartments with absolutely no space and wonder why people are leaving the city people are leaving New York City because it's a waste of money and space.

Don't worry, when they all go out of business, Amazon will buy them all up.

Didn't DeBlasio previously say he wanted to buy up vacated properties on the cheap to house the homeless? Sounds like this is going according to plan.

I'm a landlord with a single condo in Ft Lauderdale and my tenant had her hours cut significantly. My wife and I made the decision to cut her rent by 25%, i'd rather help a good tenant stay than have an empty unit and stress out a single mom and her son.

You voted for the people that are doing this. These are the people you elected, you get what you deserve. Go talk to the Mayor.

1. Expensive 2. crime That's enough to lose tenants

Now they know how it feels to not make ends meet.

Owning a rental is not everything it's cracked up to be.

I love how the mayor is telling people there's nothing they can do without federal help. How about putting a freeze on property taxes how about getting the utility companies to put a cap on how much they can charge right now. Neither one of those require federal approval.

This is what happens when you keep voting in these incompetent politicians.

They jacked the rent and were living good for many years! Should of saved instead of buying the Range Rover

You have to be pretty darn well off to own one of those building in NYC. Not to mention all.the money they have brought in for the last 10 years.

“Otherwise building owners are not gonna make it”...... I believe that was part of the plan!

Its not because of COVID. Its because its very expensive for Apartments in New York. 2000 dollars for a 2 bedroom F that. So people now are seeing how expensive it is in New York and California. I'm in Texas and alot of people are moving here from those states because its too expensive and they have been moving to Texas for the last 5 years so its not COVID.

They should have saved more than there life savings. What my landlord told me on Christmas day while putting up my eviction notice. God help us

I don't feel sorry for any of these landlords, especially since they jacked up the rent to just for wealthy gentrifiers to live in a stupid box. I don't feel sorry for them at all. These greedy landlords chased out native New Yorkers with the high rent and now their rich clientele is gone. Not sad for them at all

I predict many frozen pipes this winter. Lack of rent means many landlords won't be able to pay heating bills.

It’s time to start lowering the rents where people can work a minimum wage job and still afford to stay in their place everybody’s trying to get rich quick

I can just tell she’s never known real struggle. The fact that half of the building is still occupied ....so she’s still getting all of that money monthly while people are sick, have lost their jobs and are mourning the deaths of loved ones and she’s just whining about her investment property not making as much as it used to! I’m sure she lives comfortably in nice home in a nice area, she sounds whiny and entitled.🤷🏾‍♀️

Landlords are complaining about not being able to rent $5,000 a month one bedroom apartments in a city where the crime rate is up 90% ????

NYC relies too heavily on property tax to meet its budget. NYC has given to many big tax breaks to corp and the little guy suffers. All of NYC is suffering; the people, business, and gov't

You OWN an apartment building!!!! In NYC!!!!!

Moved to New York in 2017. Was absolutely in love with the city and everything about it. 3 years later, everything changes and I don't think it will ever go back. Just crazy. RIP Empire City.

You never complained when you ruled the roost. You never thought about your tenants when the cash was flowing in.

I’m sorry but after living in NYC and being one of those residents that moved out, I don’t feel bad for those landlords.

Awwwww, no more traveling the world on revenue from overpriced rent.

These landlords beat people over the head for rent but when they need a hand out it's all "woah is me"

NYC isn't on the brink of catastrophe, but those slumlords with the overpriced closets might be.

lol isn’t this the whole point of an investment the risk and reward. they reaped the rewards for decades and now they can’t pay for one year

I would say to the mayor: "but you've been taking an additional 4% in city income taxes off 8 million people that virtually no other city in the U.S. takes -- why can't NYC front an aide package?"

If they lower the rent you'll fill the place and be able to pay your rent theyre over charging for nothing

Why is this a surprise? The "elected leaders" who got in there brought this all about.

So people don’t want to pay $4,000 per month for a studio 😂😂

Now she knows how tenants feel 🤷🏿‍♂️

If you were smart business person with money, wait for these landlords to go belly up and buy their properties on the cheap. People will come back to NYC, so you just wait when the pandemic is over.

I left NYC in February after living there for 11 years. Most landlords are charging $$$ for not so great building conditions. I had to wait until Nov. for mine to turn on the heat. And I’m not talking about section 8. So I don’t feel so bad for them. 🙃

Wrong deblasio...its mostly your fault. What you have done to the city is horrible. Share some of that blame with Coumo.

They want us to feel sorry for them?

At first I understood the plight of landlords during the pandemic, but no more: where I live in a 200 unit apt. complex in NC, they sent out a letter saying (in effect): "We don't care what any moratorium says, pay the rent on time, in full, or we will evict you. We don't plan to work with anyone on anything." Actually, they CAN legally evict people here, as no federal loans or other assistance is involved with the property. THEN, while there has been NO increase in property tax in the area, the landlords almost immediately raised the rent 8% when the first stimulus checks came out, and they have scheduled an additional 10% increase as leases renew. This is in 50 year old buildings in a state of disrepair. People are moving out, and apparently the attitude of the owners here is "We will raise the rent on people who ARE paying in occupied apts. to make up for low occupancy and non paying tenants." At this point, I have no further compassion for the landlords.

20 years renting overpriced houses and no money for rainy days? Besides the housing market in big cities is broke. How low income people are supposed to live and work there? Rich people don't think of this when they go to restaurants, hotels, shops...until there will be no one to serve them.

Too bad don’t charge 2000+ for a one bedroom apt in Harlem

I'm in Michigan, moved here from California, used my life's savings to restore several abandoned homes to help rebuild the area.. it's working and lots of new people moving in and working on neighboring properties... My building has been vacant for 6 years while I lovingly restored it. Paid all cash, other can be cavalier about small landlords like me that bust our butts to make an honest living... I know there are bad landlords out there (I'm not one!) BUT I want to be paid for my units which are top notch... wont rent them unless I"m 100% sure I'm getting paid. How would you like to work for months and not be paid by your employer? I was homeless 3 times in my 20's and I got myself together, worked super hard, and turned all of this around! Covid sucks what its doing to all of us.

Being a landlord means being a real estate investor. That means taking risks for returns. Sometimes things go badly and investors will lose their investment. THIS IS NORMAL.The regular joes who've lost their jobs need help, not these millionaire landlords.

Imagine lowering the rent price instead of “paying” the vacancy

NYC is done!! Get the hell out NYC. The crime has exploded since the so called outbreak.

Living in a North Eastern US city, I have little sympathy for these landlords. As long as people want to move to NYC and Boston, they are happy to charge as much as they possibly can for rent. They fight rent controlled housing tooth and nail. My rent in Boston has gone up every year including this year. This woman can weather this, if she chooses not to, she will sell her property and still be a millionaire and then buy more property and make up the losses. To say that all the help is “one-sided”... please Karen. When the out of work waitress can no longer pay her rent, she is actually @#$&d and probably doesn’t have equity to fall back on. I guarantee you that these landlords have had tenants that lost jobs, had babies, got a divorce, had health problems and when they struggled to pay rent, these landlords would be more than willing to throw them out.

Sorry to hear Buttercup ! Welcome to hardships when cash flow STOP!

You mean you can't make payments after renting out a shoebox for $5K

I’ll go to nyc for $500 rent for a 2 bedroom.

They rent out crappy apartments for exorbitant prices. I have a hard time feeling bad.

It’s pretty crazy the government tells renters it’s OK to not pay rent yet still collect taxes from landlords. Priceless

Anyone who buys a rental building in NYC does so at their own peril. Look at the Mayor and City Council members. They don't represent your interests.

Soon they won't be able to charge $7000 a month for a 15 ft.sq. studio apartment. Oh, the horror!!!

Stacey Golia is really SNL's Heidi Gardner doing her side-gig.

De-funding the police and kids died. I have no idea why he is still the mayor.

Lower the rent then.

their catastrophe is a boon to financial firms that will buy those buildings at bargain bin prices

It's almost as if someone wants independent owners to lose these buildings so they could be bought back cheaply by the State...

the housing market in the city is eventually gonna crash terribly until, those ppl buy up all the real estate

Its hard for me to feel sorry for them when they took full advantage when the housing market worked for them.

Property land lords need a pause . they need a break on the property tax . Tenants also need lower taxes .everyone needs a more affordable way of living . specially when new york city is high on crime and not safe .

Well.... she might want to start working with people who have the money. Lower the rent love!

I got evicted over a credit score although I paid on time for 17 months, you landlords are getting what you deserve and the city is getting what they wanted by making so many suffer at the hands of landlords.

you gentrifed the place for these disloyal transplants. laughable.

Nobody's at fault here except for the politicians who set these policies in place

I can hear the cries of 1970's, they are making a comeback.

Where is all the tax money that is paid to NYC?

Government pauses rent but not its own property taxes. Hypocrisy at its finest.

I was a landlord for a few years for a duplex in the suburbs of Albany NY. I was surprised how much I was seen as a bad guy from acquaintances. I charged under market rates, allowed pets and children in a hope to get good renters who would stay. And I was seen as taking advantage of people. I thought I was doing a service to families who otherwise would be renting somewhere else that wasn't as nice. I sure learned how NY state provides rights to tenants that boggled my mind. And when I moved out of the area for a time I was chastised about being an absentee landlord. I ended up paying one tenant a thousand dollars to move out after she didn't pay rent for 3 months .And sold it out soon after.

I have 0 sympathy for landlords in New York.. I have seen stories of people who rent in york that put down INSANE high deposits, lifetime of savings just to be able to get approved to move into crazy tiny cramped units. With that kind of pricing and the ability for landlords to be that picky and demand those kind of move in costs and requirements.. It really makes no sense they didnt "save for a rainy day" I hope this landlord does not represent the majority of landlords there. Smh

starving homeless landlords. i feel so bad for landlords who own 12 apartment complexes, 2 metro compounds, and 3 resort town homes. this is why people don't watch TV anymore you moldy biscuits.. . . .

Maybe they’d have renters if they didn’t charge $3k per month for a closet.

The Grand Wealth Transfer! Brought to you by the "Pandemic"

Thank God I was able move into my parents old home. Yes i was evicted too.

Too many slumlords ruined it for actual decent landlords.

I think landlords are full of it because if they were that desperate for paying tenants they would accept housing programs. If you look up that apartment for sale they intentionally will say you need an income of 80,000 annually, which any real estate agent will tell you is a clever way to say no to the poor. Smh, honestly I think they are just being greedy instead of trying to help everyone involved.

Awww, A taste of their own medicine.

Irony is in 2013 there were 84 billionaires living in Manhattan. In 2020 there are 103, so much for the "rich fleeing" 😂😂

Dear NYC, GET RID OF DEBLASIO. RECALL HIM. He is your problem. Then Cuomo. You get the government you deserve. Do better when you vote.

You’ll be hard pressed to find people who empathise with landlords

Thank you governor. My tenant takes advantage on your project “you don’t need to pay rent “ 8 months from now and this tenant invited other two people live in while collect the rent. I have to work 12hrs 7days week to make sure I can pay mortgage. Then what these tenant are taking UI and wait until may 2021 to move out. Thank you so much !

NYC's usual solution to incompetent city Management: Federal money.

All they’re going to do is put in lazy, drug addicts, and section 8 in them. Crime and apartments are going to be trashed. I applied 10 years ago for one of those affordable apartments and got no call. I work at a hospital 15 years. Pay my taxes. I have 1 child. But, a non productive 4 kids that use a sheet for curtains can live in one. So not fair. I’ve decided to leave NY next year. Rent for two bedroom is too much on my income. It will take my entire first paycheck to pay rent for a two bedroom. It’s not fair for a regular working person who makes $50,000 a year.

Landlords are learning the hard way why it never paid to be greedy, and charge so much rent for less space, etc. Gentrifications was your worst move because the first to take flight when SHTF are the rich people who made you. A wise landlord would lower their rent according to what the masses could afford just to make some of the money back that they are dishing out on empty apartments anyway. That doesn’t mean let anyone move in but some people that are actually decent have it hard finding an affordable place with NYC wages, and not being jiped by slum lords.

Came on how much she they used to charge for those apartments they want money from the government where is the money they make all these year charging astronomical rents

Hmmm, My Landlord said pay or leave. My wife and I have rented for 35 years in the San Francisco Bay area. We finally bought a piece of land (1.5 acres) in the mountains of a neighboring state where I am building a Timber Frame Cabin/home from lumber I milled myself. Debt-free. It should be finished in about a year. If we had to we could live there now in our 30 ft. 2016 Travel Trailer but we're still working for about another 2 years. Over 35 years I've paid the mortgage for two Landlords with ZERO to show for it. I have very little empathy for Landlords. The modern day equivalent of Lord/Serf. Master/Slave. It's about time for a reset.

I hope these greedy slumlords lose it all.