New York City Rental Market:
Renting an apartment in New York City
is not an easy task. My first time renters always have a hard
time understanding why they have to provide so much information just to
rent an apartment. A typical rental application requires an
employment letter on company letterhead, a couple months of bank
statements, credit report, and more.
The prospective renter has usually been able to go on various websites
and read reviews of the building's management. From my
experience, it only takes one upset person to write a number of terrible reviews
about whatever qualm they have or had with that building. Now
it appears that the landlords have a website to check the backgrounds
of their prospective tentants, www.DoNotRentTo.com.
The website will provide information concerning:
- Late payments
- Non-payment
of Rent
- Theft
- Refusal
to vacate premises
- Or, other issues the
landlord had with the tenant
"This
site is driven by landlords supplying information regarding their
experiences with tenants."
That is the most interesting part of this site to me, I would
assume a thorough credit and background check would find any evictions,
criminal misconduct, history of poor credit, but it would be the
specific comments that would make things interesting. Is
there a difference
between a tenant saying that the building's super and doorman are lazy
and a landlord saying that a particular tenant will complain about
their neighbors and that their dog barks all day long while they are
away at work?
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2009 by Morgan Evans: Renting
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That's an interesting question you have in the middle. Hearing only one side of a story is never good. And it's amazing that the tenant has to go through all that just to rent! That's almost as difficult as getting a mortgage!