‘Serial grifter’ avoids eviction from woman’s West Village home: suit

Crazy. I can’t believe she left, the owner changed the locks and then a court made her let her back in.

There also seems to be more to the story though. Where is the other co-owner living? Is the daughter only there sometime?

Must be some lesbian drama angle to it as well.

I doubt there is much lesbian drama other than they are all lesbians. The scary bitch does this all over time - she's a sociopath.

Stuff like this happens, and it’s always incredibly sad. Over the decades there’s a constant push and pull over state laws trying to favor tenants over landlords, or landlords over tenants. Grifters look for cracks in the system and exploit either side to do weird shit like this. It’s awful.

I love when the judge was quoted saying she should be more, “Kind” to her. OMG!

Though I do agree with other posters there must be more to this story, even if the accused has a record of this kind of behavior and is obviously mental. Horrid situation.

Why does there need to be more to it? A crazy woman fucks others over, year after year after year after year.

Check references, idiots!

I had a lot of roommates in my 20’s and 30’s and had a few awful situations that seemed really bad.

But then I read about situations like this and realize they were nothing really, and I’ve been lucky.

The judge is just as bad as the squatter.

They should have made her rent an extra room just for that nose.

my late mother was victimized by a squatter on Long Island. Housing court was always in the woman’s favor. Finally we offered her money to leave and she did. It cost us $5k but with no other recourse, it was a small price to pay.

They should poison her.

If the people who have been exploited by her were behind trying to get an attention-grabbing story about this woman’s crimes written in one of the city’s big newspapers, it was a smart move.

yes R10, that’s a coup on their part. Maybe they got fucked by her but anyone who she tries to rent from simply has to Google her name and they’ll find her.

I can’t believe people put up with this shit and go to court, fuck that!

Right r11. This is one of the benefits of the internet. Grifters are having a harder time grifting.

I hired a woman to do a gig and she told me a sob story about how tough things were for her. Being a sap, I told her I had another event coming up but I would be happy to advance her pay for it if it would help her. She was very appreciative but when I contacted her about the other gig she told me she really didn’t have time for it, but she could MAKE time if I paid her — although I already had.

Trying to appeal to her morality proved a pointless exercise, so I posted in frustration about it on Facebook. This ruined her life! Google caught a hold of it and then whenever she tried to get a job or an apartment my post came up with “[her name] ripped me off” as the title.

I learned this because I was contacted by a mediator. I attended the mediation. She acted very outraged thar I had “done this to her” but in the end she had to come crawling for me to try to undo the damage. She paid me back the money she had taken from me for nothing more than a loosey goosy promise on my part that I’d contact google and try to get them to delist that search result. (I did, but it didn’t work).

I believe she ended up changing her name!

I also think she was involved at some point in a criminal ring of ripoff artists which actually made headlines — I googled her name and a federal criminal investigation came up out of the SDNY! It might have just been a coincidence, though.

Doesn't this crazy roommate nightmare happen to most New Yorkers at least once? I don't see what's so extraordinary about this case.

There is a definitely a lesbian angle. The lesbian couple rented to her in the past. Look at Kate Gladstone's Instagram; is Robyns Bach Bash a lesbian shindig?

lesbian drama — as big and bold as today’s headlines!!!

NY laws are nuts. People abuse the system all of the time. A friend's parents own a small building in Queens and have had a nightmare tenant who moved in 12 family members - into a 2 bedroom - and stopped paying rent YEARS ago. They can't get them out. It's a horror show for them, as they also live in the building with them.

Also from the West Village: guy I worked with let a "friend" stay in his place while she was in a hard time. Won't move out. One day she calls the cops, then tears her shirt, claims violence (the guy's a sweetheart), and the resident gets taken away. He was in NJ last I knew, she's in the rent-stabilized unit.

Stories like this and others shared on this thread scare the crap out of me. I don’t even know exactly why as I would never rent out a room in my house or anything.

it sounds like a good way to make money, doesn’t it? Until you get fucked over. I used to think if I ever had a load of money I would buy rental properties and just live off the rents but i’ve come to learn it’s a huge risk.

Ugh, that poor homeowner. I don’t how I would keep from tossing that crazy cunt out the door.

Why would you WANT to live where you’re not wanted? I think the grifter thinks the owner of the apartment will simply give up and move out and she’ll be able to stay forever.

I laughed reading this. It's so nuts - could be a movie.

She’d rented to this lunatic before?

R20, rental property is difficult. My brother and his wife inherited two nice houses 2 months ago. They thought about becoming landlords. Then a few weeks ago one house sprung a leak and the other one's central air died. $7000 later, they've decided to sell. They realize that seven grand is almost a year's profit on those houses.

If that bastard sprayed cleaning fluid at me I'd throw her out the window.

Our approach is that if someone wants to stay, the person stays.

But not necessarily where they prefer. Above-ground, for example.

I wonder if the other homeowners could get together and make like "difficult" for this grifter. But knowing how they act - and know the intricacies of the law - she would probably sue the other homeowners for harassment or something and win.

She has a type of face I have seen in AA. Sober but a victimizer, bully and often a AA fanatic. The fanatic part gets you power over some weaker members there. Would be big in the Atlantic Group of AA if she were in the Program.

Never allow 'the friend of a friend' to move in. Always run a complete credit/criminal check on a prospective renter, this psycho woman's grifter ways would have popped up even on a simple Google search.

R28 If this grifter woman is in AA, she is failing miserably the 'fearless moral inventory' step.

A similar thing happened where I live in CA. On older woman lives on a country property with a unit over the garage that she rents to help pay her mortgage. She rented to a woman and her child and the woman stopped paying rent shortly after moving in. She couldn't get her out and almost lost her home. Finally got her out.

I don't understand why though. There is recourse for landlords for tenants in my area who don't pay. I'm also a landlord and looked into it with a difficult tenant. There's a legal rental agreement order that ends in legal removal of tenant if they don't leave willingly. It's "get out in 30 days" or the sheriff will lock you out. You post it on the bedroom or front door. If the tenant again doesn't pay you can, in three days, have the sheriff escort them out and you change the locks right after they leave. After 30 days if they don't leave, same thing, sheriff comes and escorts them out and locks are changed.

In my case the tenant left on their own. Happy day.

R30 again. Oops, I forgot about the pandemic. I'm lucky our tenant left during the early days of the pandemic. You can't evict now. So many people are trapped with awful roomates and tenants right now. Sounds like the woman in the article has been squatting for a while, though. Horrible.

R29, two women reported in the news as "leaders" in the Atlantic Group (newspapers never get the language right) were arrested for stealing from residences they would visit. Cult like groups (which in my view AA as a whole is not) are catnip for your gifted types.

Tenant should take the 24K demanded by the grifter, and put out a hit.

she should take the shower head off. She doesn’t owe the grifter a shower, she is simply required to provide water.

So the lesbian couple rented a room to this woman in June 2019 for $2k and then at the end of the same month, told her to leave because they needed the room? Haha, fuck them. I wouldn't have left either. I would have stopped paying rent but looked for another place and taken my sweet time doing so.

did they ever get rid of the grifter who refused to leave her Hunter College dorm a few years ago? She flunked out, never paid tuition, but just flatly refused to move out of the dorm for years. She cried racism and the student judiciary sided with her, so they couldn’t get rid of her.

I'm torn.

I have heard of so many horror stories with tenants, but--on the other hand--all of these women know each other. I have no doubt that this lesbian couple in the village knows the lesbian ex-girlfriend in the village that had to pay her 20k to leave. So why did they want to rent to her for just one month? Sometimes the "you can't cheat an honest man" adage applies.

just proves again that there NO drama like Lesbian drama

Big nose refused to eat Granny's box while her gf was away, hence why she was given her marching orders the same month she moved in.

R36 can you give a link? I live in the neighborhood (and took a few course at Hunter) but i can't find any info online.

[quote] lesbian drama

this story needs a U-Haul

I learned this very important lesson when I let a relative move in for what was supposed to be a few weeks:

NEVER LET ANYONE RECEIVE MAIL AT YOUR ADDRESS, IT ESTABLISHES RESIDENCY. MAKE THEM GET A PO BOX EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE PO BOX YOURSELF. THE COST OF THE PO BOX WILL BE NOTHING COMPARED TO LAWYER AND COURT COSTS. REFUSE/RETURN ANY MAIL OR PACKAGES THAT ATTEMPT DELIVERY.

I was appalled at the whole legal system and how my squatter had more rights than I did. I ended up spending thousands and like the poster above, finally just gave the person money to leave.

I also had to do with a deadbeat tenant. Twice. One I managed to evict but it took a very long 15 months and about $6K in legal fees. The other owed over $20K in back rent and I paid them their demanded $4K to leave. Both were the result of me being a nice guy and giving them time to pay back rent instead of starting eviction proceeding immediately like other landlords do. I'm not rich, I use the rent to pay for the utilities (which were included in the rent) and property taxes. I actually had to take a loan out to pay for property taxes so I wouldn't fall too far behind. Never again. For as many bad landlord stories out there, there are just as many if not more bad tenant stories. Well-off landlords can afford the occasional deadbeat tenant, I cannot.

R42. NYC has very pro tenant laws on the books. If you live in a place for 30 days you are considered a legal tenant. It does not matter if you signed a lease or not. There could be zero paperwork or contract signed. It doesn't matter where your mail is sent.

Once you hit 30 days, you have the full rights as a legal tenant. That is what happened with this situation. The grifter (who knew very well about the 30 day and you are a tenant) made sure she stayed 30 days. She is dragging this through housing court as she wants a $20,000 payoff.

Well it sounds like the lesbian couple knew about the 30 day rule too, which is why they tried to get her out the same month that she moved in. I've never been in the landlord position but we all know how much moving sucks. Imagine moving into this place in NYC and then a few weeks later, being kicked out because they changed their minds. Nah.

This is like that 1990 movie "Pacific Heights" come to life. Michael Keaton is super creepy in it - and looks like a mean lesbian in it!

R40 Lisa Palmer. This woman is unbelievable, the college filed an eviction suit in 2018, do not know the outcome.

they better be careful, if she pops herself in the face and claims they did it she can get a restraining order and legally THEY will have to leave. of course, if they were smart, they would have already done just that to her.

R47 on what grounds does she think she’s entitled to a dorm room? She’s no longer a student!

R47 ...and she never paid for the dorm room when she WAS a student! She flunked out, is in her 30s, and refuses to either pay to stay or to leave!

Thank you R47.

A woman invites in a homeless couple when she finds them sleeping on park benches:

Serial squatters-these folks are pros:

No good deed goes unpunished. I learned this the hard way. You have just as much of a chance that your good hearted gesture ends up being destructive for you as it is that it will end well. Tenant laws in some cities/states work against the landlord or apartment renter, even if you invited them in for free to help them out. Some people who are homeless are in fact serial squatters looking for their next victim.

R54

It's wild that even owner occupancy isn't an exception to these laws. No one should be forced to live in the same house as a nightmare tenant. And, as a tenant, I wouldn't want to live in the same home as a landlord who hates and resents me, that can be dangerous.

How do you keep yourself from kicking this crazy bitch in the cuntbone?

The story at R13 made my day. I loathe users, scammers, grifters and thieves. I love when they get what's coming to them.

Could the apartment owner sell the unit?

SMH @ R21. I had a scamming sleaze bag employee do the same thing years ago. It must be in the grifter manual. She was fired for theft and we had solid proof. She was black and made a big stink about racial discrimination (no, honey, you are a common thief. Other employees, some of them also black, turned you in).

Anyway, she got the cops to bring her to our store so she could pick up her last check. Even though she had never been threatened in any way, she told the cops she "felt unsafe" entering our building on her own. The cop was rolling his eyes when he escorted her in. She had done the same thing a few times before. Everyone, including the cop, knew that the only reason she asked for a police escort was because she didn't have a car and needed a ride. LOL.

What must the co-op board think?

[quote]Never allow 'the friend of a friend' to move in.

Never allow ANYONE to move in.

Hi Boris here, can anyone let me move in with them in America? I pay with rubles-- I do not grift, promise!

I wish whoever has the lease could somehow get her out without getting in trouble herself. Do something that would force her to leave. But, grifters like her are pretty stubborn and are turned on by the rising tensions and "challenges" to their being there.

R63 I think you’re into something there. This woman must get some kind of thrill out of this tension/open hostility from the homeowner. Otter wise why not just move and avoid the aggravation?

The photo of this lunatic poking her head out the window is hilarious. She looks like a plucked neurotic stork. Can’t shame the shameless!

The video of her spraying Lysol around to loud music is disturbing, especially as the apartment owner says she has sprayed her directly on her neck a few times. That’s battery. That stuff isn’t meant for skin.

R644 Their optimum goal is to squat from one apartment to another with next to no rent payment. Many even extort you to even pay them a sizeable lump sum to move out. Then they get another sucker to play their game. Unless there is serious fine or that their name gets added to a black list, they will continue their tactic indefinitely.

Doesn’t this woman have a small child? How is this OK for the welfare of the child, beeikg exposed to this kind of emotionally fraught environment?

^being

One of the papers showed the grifter hanging out the window at 129 Barrow Street. I feel sorry for her daughter, the kid attends P.S. 3 on Hudson Street.

NY laws are a bloodbath for landlords. My sister moved across the country, decided to rent the house for at least a while, found a "reputable" agent who fucked her from here to Neptune. Agent got some shady pal in the house, the pal paid rent for a month or two. From that point, zero money, sis came to learn that the grifter was sub-letting part of the house, which was explicitly not allowed as per the lease. Grifter refused to leave and it took going through a slew of steps, complete w. the grifter 100% lying repeatedly in court. After all that shit, grifter left the night before the sheriff was set to arrive and remove her. House wasn't physically damaged, but cleaning it out filled 9 big trash bags.

R70 How old is the kid? If she’s old enough, surely her classmates know this is in the news and teasing her.

The next time she's busy spraying Lysol, light a lighter and step back.

Can’t the homeowner do something to drive her out? Play music loud all day?

If the grifter is so afraid of germs, the landlord should start belching, coughing, scratching her crotch, farting, leave dirty Kleenex everywhere, leave fake positive Covid results lying around.

[quote]Can’t the homeowner do something to drive her out? Play music loud all day?

I think the squatter could escalate things and claim harassment

I think R75 has it: Excessive farting. That lady needs to go on a Chipotle diet.

^It can be injected. Kills a virus in like a minute, right?

What happened to the DL Grifter who managed to get people to give him money for rent? Is he ok?

We had a grifter?

We didn't.

Some of the dopes here at the DL did.

Never trust people who invite a needy leech to attach itself. And don't pity them, either.

The DL grifter was the guy in a wheelchair with his pal stealing prescription drugs, right?

This site has everything but Yul Brynner.

[quote]This site has everything but Yul Brynner.

Don't forget the guy who fucked Falco, except Falco had long since died!

R82 Ah right, that was the fella begging for cash because his Traveller b.f. was supposedly going to be deported back to Ireland after a decade overstaying a tourist visa and committing crimes. I wonder what ever happened to our star-crossed pair of lovers?

From the article: "Bajada has steered clear of the co-op, which she owns, in part because of Gladstone’s presence, the couple charges in legal papers."

This is going on in a co-op, WHY is this lunatic allowed to stay? Cop-op boards are extremely strict.

How did the owners get away with allowing this mental case to move in? Co-op boards don't allow just anyone to move in. I live in a co-op, anyone, even a relative who wants to stay a few months, must be vetted. After some serious surgery, one of my neighbors needed a live-in home aide for about a year. Even something as serious as that situation was a big production, the co-op board almost didn't allow the live-in aide! The home aide's background was thoroughly checked, then the board made a big deal about giving the home aide the new key fobs! How the hell could she food shop and run other errands. Meanwhile, this lunatic has literally taken over a cooperator's apartment? Something isn't right.

Guess some co-ops are stricter than others? A cooperator in a friend's co-op building was actually forced to sell their apartment because they constantly blasted music at all sorts of hours.

This fug Gladstone freak has a criminal record, that alone would not pass muster with a co-op board. What kind of co-op board does this building have, even they cannot get this lunatic out? Co-op boards usually have enormous power.

There's a lot about this story which doesn't makes sense at all.

Murder is bound to happen!

It sounds like the lesbians did not get approval to allow this woman to move in.

If they try to make her life miserable, she can just claim harassment, get a restraining order, and then the lesbians will have to find somewhere else to live. They will be the ones out on the street.

R86

Co-op boards and thus rules that govern shareholders vary. Not every building is white glove uptight as most UES, Sutton and Beekman Place buildings.

Boards are often and usually reflective of shareholders in setting tone of a building. Nine Barrow like many co-ops and condos in Chelsea, West Village, Tribeca, SoHo, FiDi, and so forth located below mid-town tend to be a bit more open to things like pied-a-terre, roommates, etc.... than many UES buildings who tend to be more strict.

Besides problem isn't being caused for the building (yet), but is a private issue between a shareholder and her "guest" or whatever that other person calls herself. Long as shareholder of record continue paying their monthly fees on on time, haven't broken any known laws of the co-op, and or otherwise affecting building as a whole, this will continue to be a private matter.

Am sure other shareholders and board of 9 Barrow street aren't thrilled with publicity, but then they shouldn't allow people to take in lodgers should they?

Another listing for 9 Barrow street. You can see, well you can see we're not talking about Fifth or Park avenue UES white glove pre-war building here; but a former commercial space converted into residential.

It is an established matter of law in NYS once someone has established residence they can only be removed by formal eviction.

That stuff you hear about husbands or wives throwing a spouse out of their shared home is rubbish. Ditto for lovers, mistresses, long term boy or girl friends, an adult (or even minor) child, family member, roommates, borders, etc.... All such persons have to do is summon NYPD who will return them back to their "home" and inform whoever that if they want person out it requires legal action via courts.

In NYS the only authority to legally remove a person with any sort of tenancy is the courts. Homeowners, tenant of record, landlords, apartment owner... none of them have rights to lock and or force out someone with a right of tenancy.

Where there is some sort of aggreement in writing (roommate, Airbnb, summer share, etc...) then all bets are off; to remove "tenant" things must go through court system. This woman in West Village isn't alone in her problems either....

My best friend and I were renting a house ,and he wanted to bring one of his co-workers in . I met him,we partied together,he seemed pretty cool. So we let him in. BIG mistake. He paid his share for 2 months,then never paid anything again. Then he moved in some chick and her 10 month old baby while we were away for a cruise. We filed for eviction,but were told it would take 90 days. Or more. I said okay bitch,let the games begin. Every morning at 6am I would open my bedroom door and turn up the tv very loud .Of course that woke the baby up and he'd start screaming. Then I took all the knobs off the washer and dryer so they couldnt use them . I also chained the fridge so they couldnt use it,took every light bulb in the house out except mine and besties rooms(he had a bathroom so we used his) . I installed a locked box over the thermostat,and blocked the vent to their room from the inside. They finally threw in the towel when I took the hot water faucets off ,and threw the shitty baby diapers she left everywhere into their car on a blistering hot day. The weirdest thing about it all,never a word was uttered after the initial confrontations. It was a grim and silent battle !

[R92] That’s what I’m talking about. Love you!

R92 In NYC you would have gotten into trouble doing that to a legal tenant. The tenant is legal until a judge orders an eviction notice.

You also could have faced child abuse charges as well.

NYC housing court is pro-tenant.

The grifter is acting up again.

R94 its against the law to turn on your tv in New York ? It wasnt my problem it woke the baby up . As for the fridge,I bought and paid for it and there is nothing that says I have to share it legally. Dont get me wrong,I felt bad for that poor baby,but he was collateral damage in the war against the leeches. They didnt pay for anything (rent,lights,water,cable,nada)after it all came to a head. Oh,I also cut all the lines to the cable except in our rooms. No law said I had to give those fucks free cable.

I would think an adult writing on the walls in magic marker is a sign of mental illness.

I think the “dawn” for her means she believes the homeowner will give up leave her the apartment.

Thank's to DT's recent EO or whatever via CDC, that West Village grifter will be allowed to remain at least until 31 December instead of 1 October.

Murder is bound to happen.......

I wonder if the grifter knows about the NY Post coverage?

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

This story still doesn't add up. A co-op won't allow this sort of nonsense to go on. This nutcase is surely not on the tenant's co-op lease. Co-op leases, even if you own the shares and don't have a mortgage, usually have to be renewed every 10 years. This bullshit might go on at a condo, not a co-op. Condo rules are very loose.

A friend lives in moderately price co-op in Queens, it's sure not a white glove Fifth Avenue super expensive multi-million dollar place. But it is well established, has great financials and it's well maintained, it's been a co-op over 50 years. My friend recently told me the board just evicted a tenant. I don't have all the details, but this person did nothing anything as insane as this mental case.

R102

Thing is due to covid-19 and the insane edicts of governor and courts in NYS, now DT piling on there isn't anything either co-op nor individual shareholder can do at this point. When, unless or until various eviction moratoriums are lifted or this person deemed unable to benefit, the grifter is not going anywhere.

What actions co-op board can and or will take against shareholder is another matter. Ironically even there hands are tied because even if board moved to oust legal shareholders, they can't be evicted either under same moratoriums that are keeping grifter in place.

Also as stated previously in this thread, not all co-op buildings are the super strict nasty, xenophobic, etc... white glove pre-war types of UES, Sutton Place and Beekman Place.

Many buildings downtown, on UWS, Harlem, etc... can be somewhat less strict which suits nature of and or reflects shareholders.

This situation never would happen in a Fifth, Park or even Madison avenue UES co-op. Even when board would allow renting out of a bedroom or whatever the person in question would be vetted up their ass. More to the point these buildings insist on financial soundness of shareholders. If you cannot maintain style of living without taking in lodgers, then it would be time for you to sell and move.

I have to say, I’m not in favor of the room renting. I used to live in a beautiful old pre-war and the rents were pretty hefty, but the units were large. There were two elderfraus who had been there since the Stone Age and so paid very little rent. Even so, neither could afford their rent so they rented rooms to the seediest looking men you could ever hope to see.

One of them hit on the female tenants, especially one in particular who lived a floor above. She told me she resented the presence of these guys like becasue they couldn’t afford to live in the building and didn’t belong there, nor did the old fraus.

Before you judge, both of these old women thought that their years of living there earned them the right to gossip. One in particular was very pushy and obnoxious. No one could stand her. The other one (not really old, more middle aged) wouldn’t shut the fuck up if she ran into you in the lobby. I wouldn’t have minded seeing both chucked out. I loathe nosiness.

R104, so what was the outcome, did the seedy men renting rooms remain in the apartment when the older frau died?

R105 I moved out years ago but when I left the two room renting fraus (different apartments) were still there and still had boarders.

Bring in boarders can be a good idea until they stop paying or become really bad roommates. The problem in many locales such as NYC is that the laws heavily favor the "tenant" regardless of the circumstances. The landlord or leasor should not have to go through such a lengthy expensive process to have them evicted.

Never rent out all inclusively.

I had a couple who rented my one bedroom and den “starter” home after I’d moved out. They secretly moved in two sisters and then claimed that four working adults couldn’t afford to pay really basic rent.

Eviction process dragged on for months.

What finally did them in was they stopped paying utility companies. Gas got turned off late spring. They barbecued every meal, showered at the gym. Come late fall, gas company refused to reconnect heat unless they repaid prior year’s arrearages.

Had my house back by Christmas.

R108 looks like you got off easy!

She gives me the creeps. Deeply creepy. She's going to crack during one of these grifts and kill the rightful tenant.

R110 I get what you mean. She’s revelling in her abuse of the apartment owner.

R111

More so since the grifter now has power of LE and legal system at her back; literally she cannot be touched.....

As stated above, murder is bound to happen.........

I'd be damned to put up with that sort of shit in my own house; but the lesbian couple did ask for it by renting out part of their apartment.

Knowing how pro-tenant (a word with a pretty expansive definition in New York), anyone who would rent out part of their home wants their head examined.

One old friend of mine once loaned his unused car to another old friend of mine, who then lent it to a friend of his own. I don’t think any money exchanged hands. I advised against it, to both my friends, but they did it anyway. I think my first friend thought he was avoiding the effort of finding a place for it in the city for a few months. I couldn’t figure out what he was thinking, realistically,

When my friend wanted. his own car back, he couldn’t get it. I think I drove two hours away, with him, and he used his spare keys to just take it back. I forget how it ended, but he did get the car back, and not voluntarily. While I avoided the drama, for the most part, of course my friends became enemies.

Well I say the rightful claimant should hire a couple of wranglers to go in there and beat the shit out of her.

The one positive from all this will be that the grifter's name is now out there for future potential renters and landlords. A simple Google search should red flag her.

Some things are going to happen to this nasty woman.

Here’s more about her. What is going through this woman’s mind? She hasn’t paid rent in a year (so before the virus) AND she wants $24, 000 from the homeowner to leave? How does that make sense?

The homeowner wrote to Cuomo, as he is the only one who can enforce the eviction now.

I am really enjoying the commenters who seem to think that co-op boards have powers above the laws that co-op share holders are subject to.

It makes me wonder what happened in their past....

This nasty cunt should be tarred and feathered. She should be chained in traffic meridian and the entire middle class village can spit on her.

I hate her. She makes my skin crawl.

She’s probably enjoying the notoriety.

If that lady ever gets her out of her apartment, she’ll never be able to rent in NYC again, unless she comes up with a new name.

Her grifts and M.O. can be tattood on her ugly face.

I am fascinated by the idea that Grifterette is seemingly fine with sharing a small space with a woman who despises her and wants her out, and who pays all of the bills. Some kind of bizarre entitlement, or psychosis? Her scrawls on the wall (?!) suggest she has a persecution complex on top of all, which I suppose fits the profile.

Where I grew up, Grifterette's body would never be found.

I wonder what she tells her daughter and why her daughter isn’t horrified by her mother’s behavior. Tweens usually hate their parents even if they’re normal.

Grifterina has a 12 year old daughter. The daughter must find mom deplorable, no?

Regarding the elderly women renting to boarders - they have an edge. If one of their boarders mistreats them or verbally abuses them, and engages in behavior that may affect their health, they can report it as elder abuse and the boarder can get arrested for that.

Elder abuse laws in states like NY are very strong.

I can't even look at the grifter's face, with that huge greasy nose, ugh.

This is like a horror story—if only the apartment owner had shelled out a few dollars for a background check. Oh well.

NYC laws were enacted in order to help protect tenants against abusive or unfair landlords, but there is little a landlord can do against an abusive or grifter tenant outside of a lengthy and costly legal eviction process.

"I wonder what she tells her daughter and why her daughter isn’t horrified by her mother’s behavior."

She probably IS horrified.

That's the general state of being a tween and teenager. Even if your parents are wholesome and normal you're usually embarrassed by them. I feel bad for this poor kid with a crazycakes criminal mother.

The ;laws have to be changed, In NYC if you let a friend stay for more than 30-days, they become a "resident," and that's when the problems begin. It can take as long a year to evict someone.