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In The Landlord’s Survival Guide, Jeff Taylor shares fresh ideas and fresh perspectives that will help make any landlord more productive.
- Leigh Robinson, author of ,Landlording: A Handy Manual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies.
""Mr. Landlord's ideas have increased the profits from my apartments every time I've applied them! If you want bigger cash flows and smaller hassles, read this book!""
- Peter Conti, co- author of Investing in Real Estate Without Cash or Credit.
""Not only is The Landlord’s Survival Guide great for new and part-time real estate investors, it is extremely helpful for new property managers who are starting out managing other people's property or for the long time property managers wanting new tips and a great reference guide."" - Melissa Prandi, author of the Unofficial Guide to Managing Rental Property and past president of the National Association of Residential Property Managers
The Landlord’s Survival Guide by best-selling author Jeffrey Taylor, is for real estate investors just like you, who want full-time profits from their rental properties but only want to deal with them part time.
Taylor, also known as Mr. Landlord, shows you a new way of managing properties in this competitive and ever-changing marketplace. Today's renters want things ""their way"" and this guide shows you how to give residents what they want while giving you what you want - maximum profits.
Mr. Landlord’s step-by-step advice removes all the guesswork and gets you on the road to building wealth with rental property. This book shows how to: • Fill vacancies quickly with ideal residents even in a tough rental market
• Identify and avoid “problem” residents and situations Collect on-time payments
• Keep residents beyond the standard one-year lease period
• Double your monthly cashflow and maximize your profits
• Let residents to ""work with you"" to reach your real estate goals faster
Complete with all the action steps to help you implement Mr. Landlord’s money-making management system, The Landlord’s Survival Guide is a must-read for landlording newbies and veterans who want bigger profits.
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Rental properties make up nearly 40 percent of the housing market, with investors increasingly interested in hands-on landlording.
Becoming a landlord is not for the faint of heart! As tens of thousands of new investors join the ranks of landlords each year, they need a mentor willing to show them the ropes. In this third edition, experienced investor and landlord Bob Irwin takes newbie landlords step-by-step through the process, explaining what no one ever bothers to mention about the landlording game.
The Landlord's Troubleshooter is a clear, engaging guide that covers all the bases. It pays to start with the right property by analyzing the rental market. Then, active landlords learn proven techniques to:
* Find tenants who will pay on time.
* Avoid disputes using the sample forms and suggested language for every challenging situation.
* Deal with repairs, tenant problems, eviction, and security deposits.
* Understand liability, legal issues, and recent law changes.
* Cash out at the opportune moment to optimize the investment.
The Landlord's Troubleshooter offers savvy advice for the hands-on investor. This do-it-yourself landlording primer addresses what to do to avoid mistakes when renting properties, and outlines the best practices of the most successful landlords.
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Thousands of New York tenants are taken to court each year by their landlords and many more give up valuable rights because they don't know what their legal rights are. This book explains in simple language what the legal rights of tenants are and how they can protect those rights. Tenants' Rights in New York explains New York's landlord/tenant laws in simple language so you can protect your rights and your investment. This book thoroughly explains what to do and how to do it, with forms, flowcharts and examples from actual cases. Complete with step-by-step instructions and the forms you need, this book can significantly reduce your costs and potential liability as a landlord. It explains and gives guidelines for: Security deposits Evictions Leases Assignments and subleases Discrimination Repair and maintenance Pets Privacy Using Self-Help Law Books Introduction Chapter 1: General Considerations Relationships Dealing with Your Landlord Dealing with a Manager Dealing with Other Tenants Dealing with Roommates Chapter 2: Laws and Regulations that Apply to Rentals New York Landlord/Tenant Laws New York State Laws Local Laws Federal Laws Condominium and Co-op Rules Deed Restrictions Legal Research Obtaining Assistance Chapter 3: Beginning the Landlord/Tenant Relationship The Application Process Your Credit Report Discrimination Home Businesses Pets Inspecting the Unit Chapter 4: Rent Regulation Rules that Apply to Rent Laws Limiting Rent Rent Control Rent Stabilization Lofts Single Room Occupancies Chapter 5: The Rental Agreement Leases and Rental Agreements Oral and Written Leases Length of the Lease or Agreement Lease Provisions Problems with the Lease Negotiating a Lease Inspecting the Unit How to Get out of a Lease Options Chapter 6: Your Security Deposit Landlord's Method of Holding Notice Interest Getting Your Deposit Back Special Rules Chapter 7: Maintenance and Repairs Landlord's Responsibilities for Maintenance and Repairs Single Family Homes and Duplexes Warranty of Habitability Lead Carbon Monoxide Asbestos Radon Getting Things Fixed Tenant's Responsibilities for Maintenance Improvements by Tenants Chapter 8: Injuries on the Premises Landlords' Liability Landlord Liability for Actions by Tenants Strict Liability Tenants' Liability Chapter 9: Changes during Lease Period Assignments Subleases Roommates Lease Succession Sale or Foreclosure of the Property Changes to the Lease Chapter 10: Problems during Your Tenancy Landlords' Access to Your Unit Retaliatory Conduct by the Landlord Bad Checks Damage to the Premises Death of a Tenant Destruction of the Premises Vacating Early Problems with Other Tenants Neighborhood Problems Chapter 11: Tenant Organization Forming a Tenant Organization Rent Strikes Chapter 12: End of the Tenancy The End of Your Tenancy Damage to the Premises Holding over Tenancies with No Specific Term Early Termination by Tenant Early Termination by Landlord Employment Rentals Options to Cancel a Lease Special Rules for Public Housing Death of a Tenant Chapter 13: Evictions Getting a Lawyer Self-Help by Landlord Surrender or Abandonment Nonpayment Proceeding Holdover Proceeding Courtroom Procedures Your Possible Defenses Your Possible Counterclaims Your Answer Court Appearances Trial Court Personnel Mediation Stipulation Warrant of Eviction Staying the Eviction Yellowstone Injunctions Money Damages and Back Rent Motion for Rehearing Your Appeal Bankruptcy Landlord's Appeal Chapter 14: Self-Service Storage Chapter 15: Mobile Home Owner's Rights Appendix A: New York Statutes Appendix B: Eviction Flowcharts and Legal Holidays Appendix C: Forms Index
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Finally Some HELP!.......2000-11-14
This book really helped me know what my rights are and how to handle my landlord. It helped me understand my lease and now I know how to get my landlord to fix things. There is lots of info about anything that could come up while renting. Great book to have around even if you aren't having a problem.
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Techniques for parlaying sweat equity, common sense, and minimal cash into real estate success and financial security
"The knowledge shared in this book is priceless because it works. Highly recommended."--Robert Bruss, nationally syndicated real-estate columnist
The New No-Nonsense Landlord eschews the glitz of "how to become a millionaire" real estate books to provide nuts and bolts, how-to information on the hands-on realities of being a successful landlord. It provides landlords as well as those who want to become landlords with practical advice on how to deal with tenants, how to make low-cost repairs, how to take maximum advantage of tax laws, and more.
Author and longtime real estate investor Richard Jorgensen knows firsthand what it takes to become wealthy owning rental properties, and shares his secrets on every page. New information in this revised and expanded edition includes:
- New chapters on insurance, single family homes, and 2-6 unit properties
- Updated tax strategies for maximizing profits
- Updated case studies throughout the book
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Honest And Realistic!!!.......2005-08-18
Of the many how-to real estate investment books out there, Jorgensen comes accross with great detail for anyone starting out in the real estate field! His explanations are thoughtful and there are a lot of examples and details! Out of the many, many, many books I've read and in my experience, this book is very honest. The author spends time talking about the pitfalls of real estate and he presents a very realistic view of this type of investing. It's an excellent place to start for beginners and it makes a good refresher for vetrens. It's the very first book I recommend to anyone interested in real estate investment.
Great Book for beginners and awesome principles .......2005-04-14
This book is very helpful for people who are thinking about investing. Jorgensen has some very good principles in this book that deserve more thought and research. I recommend this book to everyone I know that is thinking about rental property. Worse case this is a great starting point. ***MAKE SURE YOU READ THE NEWEST EDITION*** (There are at least 3 different editions)
Little Substance.......2004-04-18
This book is for those individuals who are flirting with the idea of buying rentals. The first 100 pages were purely motivational: Stories of people who have done well with rentals and the repetetive "I've done it, and you can do it too!" mantra that you get in cheap infomercials. The rest of the book provides little useful information about buying and managing rental units. I read the entire book in an afternoon. It amazed me how little information could be packed into 306 pages (though large print and many pictures of properties did help).
Don't regard this review as mean spirited: there are many very good books on investing in residential real estate, but this one is not worth the money.
A good book for the prospective landlord.......2003-02-23
This book was written in 1994 and may be viewed by some as being dated. The author is a small real estate investor and tells of projects that he personally has been involved in as well as the project of other people he knows. The stories are real and there are before and after photos in the book, which is quite uncommon for a book of this type. There is a chapter on "Success Stories" that I particularily enjoyed. There's a chapter of the "Fixer-Upper" which was also good. Many of the other chapters about tenants and management were covered in other books with mcuh more depth. "Landlording" by Leigh Robinson is an excellent book on the tenant and management side of the business and is much more comprehensive than this book. This is a good book, but not a great book. I appreciate the author's experience in rental properties and I liked to see the photos which help tell the story and make the examples very real. This book does not have all the answers and if you expect that you will be disappointed.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE.......2002-05-13
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR THE DO-IT-YOURSELFER. IT WAS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN IN THE BUSINESS FOR MANY,MANY YEARS. HE HAS STRONG RECOMENDATIONS ON YOU TAKING CHARGE. HE BELEAVES IN RENTING GOOD CLEAN UNITS AND GIVING GOOD SERVICE. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MANY OVERLOOK. TALKS ALOT ABOUT DEALING WITH TENANTS. HE TELLS OF A LOT OF LITTLE TIDBITS IN MANAGEING HIS PROPERTY. EXPLAINS IN LENGTH CONTRACT FOR DEEDS. HE TAKES YOU THRU THE BEGINING OF INVESTING TO CASHING OUT. COMPARES RENTALS TO 401K's AND MANAGEING YOUR MONEY. HE IS THE FIRST AUTHOR TO TALK ABOUT YOUR WELL BEING AS A LANDLORD AND GIVES ALOT OF ADVICE TO HELP COPE IN THE BAD TIMES AND TELLS OF KEEPING A GOOD MENTAL ATTITUDE. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE EARLY 90's THIS BY FAR IS ONE OF THE BETTER REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT BOOKS THAT I HAVE READ.
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New York Tenants' Rights
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Stories about the New York rental market are legendary, but New York tenants know that tales of dishonest real estate agents, rent-gouging landlords and rodent-infested housing can be all too true. Where can you turn for help?
Written by an experienced New York landlord-tenant attorney, New York Tenants' Rights provides the answers to rental problems in one comprehensive book. The book guides you through legal quagmires and solutions as you encounter them, step by step. You'll find plain-English solutions to problems involving:
*signing a lease or rental agreement
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*discrimination, harassment or retaliation
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*subletting your place
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*ending your lease
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*terminations, rent defaults and evictions
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New York Tenants' Rights covers the extensive rules and regulations of New York City as well as the rest of the state. It also provides instructions for preparing dozens of essential legal forms and letters, including a rent overcharge complaint, tenant answers to eviction proceedings, apartment inspection checklist and noise complaint letter.
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"Stories about the New York rental market are legendary, but New York tenants know that tales of dishonest real estate agents, rent-gouging landlords and rodent-infested housing can be all too true. Where can you turn for help? Written by an experienced New York landlord-tenant attorney, New York Tenants' Rights provides the answers to rental problems in one comprehensive book. The book guides you through legal quagmires and solutions as you encounter them, step by step. You'll find plain-English solutions to problems involving: signing a lease or rental agreement repairs and services discrimination, harassment or retaliation privacy invasions problem roommates noisy neighbors subletting your place mold and lead paint hazards ending your lease getting your security deposit returned terminations, rent defaults and evictions and much more New York Tenants' Rights covers the extensive rules and regulations of New York City as well as the rest of the state. It also provides instructions for preparing dozens of essential legal forms and letters, including a rent overcharge complaint, tenant answers to eviction proceedings, apartment inspection checklist and noise complaint letter. "
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A great find!!!.......2004-05-28
This book is amazing! When I first started renting in NYC I was really intimidated and let landlords walk all over me but this book has helped me to do a 360. Now that I know what my rights are, I don't hesitate to confront my landlord about things like repairs. A couple of months ago I even used this book as a guide to subletting my place. I thought that that was going to be a huge ordeal but this book made it so easy! So if you're a NY renter, do yourself a favor and buy this book! Don't let the greedy landlords take advantage of you anymore!
Highly recommended!.......2003-07-24
I moved to New York City a year ago, but didn't have this book. How I wish I did...
This city is a lot of fun, but is also demanding in many ways. Understanding your rights as a tenant is one of those "know it or suffer the consequences" issues every NYC renter faces.
I found this book to be a great resource, even with the recent modifications in state and city laws. It is well laid out and explains the sometimes dry issues of tenants' rights in a very readable manner. Unlike several of the other tenants' rights books out there, this book had a well constructed index that brought me straight to the answers I was seeking.
Be proactive, buy this book!
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New York is notoriously tough on landlords. Fortunately, The New York Landlord's Law Book explains the legalese a landlord needs to know in comprehensive, understandable terms, giving them the tools they need to head off problems with tenants and agencies.
The book provides you with "nuts and bolts advice" on how to comply with the latest laws on:
*rent stabilization and rent control
*fair housing
*security deposits
*required services
*roommates and sublets
*tenants
*privacy
*and much more
The 2nd edition includes extensive recent changes to rent laws and regulations, new ways to deal with tenants who always pay rent late, issues regarding terrorism and rental properties, new sections on tenant exposure to mold and federal rules on tenant-installed satellite dishes. All forms included as tear-outs and on a CD-ROM.
Written by an attorney specializing in landlord-tenant law, The New York Landlord's Law Book belongs in the hands of every landlord, managing agent, resident manager and building superintendent, and anyone else involved in the rental real estate market in New York.
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REQUIRED READING!.......2004-03-07
As a beginner starting out in the rental business, this book was the most helpful that i have found. It is very thorough, but incredibly well organized and easy to use. The forms section and included CD ROM really give you everything you need to get started. Of course you will want to alter them a bit and make them more suitable for your specific situation, but doing so is quick and easy. A friend of mine who has been in the landlording business for quite a while actually rushed out and bought a copy of his own after viewing mine. Truly a great book!
The N.Y. Landlord's Law Book Reviewer Paul D.Leontzwich.......2000-12-19
Being the owner of a few pieces of property in N.Y.City whose courts are pro tenant this book is must reading for the landlord.Mary Ann HAllenborg has compiled clear concise information of how to manage property in a very over regulated city.Without legal mumbo jumbo the author covers everything from choosing a tenant,complying with rent stabilization and rent control laws to legally terminating a tenancy.An up to date guide of very useful information I highly recommend it!
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Under New York law, if you do not follow the exact procedures required of
landlords, you can be liable to tenants for thousands of dollars in damages
and attorneyis fees. The landlord's legal Guide in New York explains New York's landlord/tenant laws in simple language so you can protect your rights and your
investment. This book thoroughly explains what to do and how to do it, with forms, flowcharts and examples from actual cases.
Complete with step-by-step instructions and the forms you need, this book can
significantly reduce your costs and potential liability as a landlord.
It explains and gives guidelines for:
Tenants' applications
Evictions
Claims on security deposits
Bad check notices
Abandoned property rules
Suits for back rent
Pets
Discrimination laws
Maintenance rules
Customer Reviews:
Maybe, Maybe Not.......2004-03-07
This book is filled with valuable information, but the set up is extremely poor. If you look at the table of contents you'll see the title names and page numbers along with "sub-chapters" pertinent to specific topics. THE PROBLEM is that there are no page numbers given for any of the many "sub-chapters", making it very difficult to find what you are looking for. As I said above though, this book does contain useful information, especially on the topic of eviction. I recommend buying this as a SUPPLEMENT to THE NEW YORK LANDLORD'S LAW BOOK, by Mary Ann Hallenborg.
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A Free Soil - A Free People: The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York
Dorothy Kubik
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By 1845, settlers had transformed the wilderness of the Catskills in upstate New York into productive farms. Their dream of owning their own land, however, became a nightmare as they tried to free themselves from the shackling leases of wealthy landlords. Considering their cause a continuation of the American Revolution, the tenants rebelled and refused to pay the rent. The more militant, like the colonists at the Boston Tea Party, called themselves "Indians." They dressed in grotesque disguises and appeared at sales on delinquent tenants' property to intimidate bidders. Violence erupted at one of these sales near Andes in Delaware County, and a fatal bullet almost shattered their cause. A Free Soil--A Free People tells of their struggles, their sufferings, and their final triumph.
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Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom hears their cries of outrage and abuse; he learns about their secret sorrows and desires. And as he grows familiar with their stories, he finds that he is drawn, in spite of his best judgment, into a desperate attempt to improve their lives.
Edward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.
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A lucky find.......2007-02-07
I found this book amid my wanderings and grazings in the library and was deep in the story before I knew it. "How the heck did that happen," I wondered, looking at my finger marking the place past the middle of the book.
I was surprised that Wallant could make his ghostlike protagonist so easy to keep company with. Moonbloom has some interesting people to puzzle out and be touched by, in spite of his interior distance, and that's part of what makes this a compelling read, but it's Moonbloom himself, in his innocent emptiness, becoming stained by life, that gives this book its poetry.
Wallant writes some beautiful lines, ways of seeing that are another seduction. He makes the characters grotesque in the most human ways, describing the tenants in all their peculiar, disturbing complexity, finding details that fascinate as a child is fascinated by the strangeness of the world.
The story tips over at times into what you could call sappiness, but it's the kind of sappiness you find in the best depression era movies--it makes you feel good in spite of all the crap and misery you rub up against
I'd love to see this book transformed into a play, it's got great emotion in the language and the scenes, in the movement of the plot.
As I read I floated effortlessly along, enjoying the great injections of Wallant's love of the world and humankind, crud, mud, cuts and all, shining with nobility and dignity in the lowest places, arriving at the end with tears of laughter. I love art that draws together the extremes and in the contrast breaks you open with beauty and grief. Wallant pulls this off, and he's not subtle about it. I'm glad he had the guts to be so transparently transcendent.
That's not for everyone, but probably most people who open this book and start reading will want to keep reading, and will be sorry that the story can't keep going for a while longer.
A little-known masterpiece.......2006-12-12
Before picking up this book to read for a book group discussion, I had only vaguely heard of Wallant. I now see what I had been missing. Had he lived, Wallant would have found a significant place in 20th-century American literature.
Having read the book, I am convinced that Wallant was an American original with a distinctive voice. Not much happens in The Tenants of Moonbloom. Most of the action is interior to the characters, who are living their days in quiet desperation. Wallant is able to show humanity as it is -- no retouching here -- without succumbing to cynicism. He cares deeply for all his characters, with all their flaws and errors.
At the center of the action is Norman Moonbloom, who finds a secular religion and acts upon it. He is one of the more unforgettable characters whom I have encountered.
A tour de force of how to overcome life's conditions.......2006-11-29
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I don't remember how I decided to buy a copy of The Tenants of Moonbloom--but it no longer matters. Perhaps because the main character Norman Moonbloom is a rent collector and agent for his brother Irwin's tenements, and two key characters are the superintendent and a plumber, I sensed that the Manhattan experience might shed some light on my parents' motel in Colorado. The back cover blurb of the novel says that, as Moonbloom collects the rent money, he hears the tenants' "cries of outrage and abuse[;] he learns about their secret sorrows and desires[.] And as he grows familiar with their stories, he finds that he is drawn . . . into a desperate attempt to improve their lives." In my parent's motel, as in the narrative of Moonbloom, no one is ever anonymous when rent is collected in person or repairs and renovations are made while the tenant is on the premises. Things aren't done so personally anymore, and as a result, with this novel of 1963, we get a peek into the past. However, nothing in this novel is like anything I've ever read. In retrospect, this novel is so unique and unclassifiable that none of the jacket blurbs or commentary can tell the reader exactly what it's about; truly, one must read the novel.
Norman on himself: "Oh me," he said shrugging. "I'm New York's most educated rent collector. I'm trying to make what I'm stuck with into a vocation" (48).
The Tenants of Moonbloom raises many questions for readers interested in the craft of writing. To me, New York City, and Manhattan in particular, have always represented cultural diversity; when all other places seemed homogenous, one expected a crazy mix in NYC. Wallant's task was difficult: How does a writer craft episodes with ethnically, racially, or emotionally diverse people while avoiding stereotype? These kinds of diversity, in Tenants of Moonbloom, appear kooky or kinky and exotic to the reader not from New York, but the characters' misery and alienation makes the ending almost necessary. This might be the only novel--that I recall--that reconciles these wide differences and links the fate of the characters.
Until this novel, it had never occurred to me that renovating and cleaning rentals could be a spiritual experience. The Tenants of Moonbloom could be New York City's quintessential existentialist novel. Does it depict a kind of crazy, insanely inspired religious experience?
Edward Lewis Wallant's choice of words, his idiolect, his phrasing is at times so unusual that it took my attention away from the action and characters, but I would not have it any other way. Here are a few of Wallant"s images: "Turning, he [Beeler] motioned Norman to sit on a tortured ottoman" (39); "His stomach was used to food prepared for mass lack of taste" (42); "He began to laugh, caught himself, and shivered the mirth to a stop" (171).
Wallant's powers of observation: Norman with Bodien, the plumber, in the smelly, grimy basement, as they inspect and fix the water pipes: "Norman looked up with him at the dark ceiling of the cellar, as though he could see the metal veins carrying the flow through the body of the house, and pictured the sudden resumption of things in all the apartments" (76).
One of Wallant's gemstones: His rendition of writer James Baldwin as Paxton.
Wallant is specific about the location of the Moonbloom tenements. Maybe a reader in the NYC area can shed light on this: 70th Street, Mott Street, 2nd Avenue, and 13th Street.
Life in the big city.......2005-10-05
Frankly, this is one of those books which I find hard to say anything good or bad about. It's a pleasant read, filled with quiet wit, and anyone who's lived in New York will recognize most of the characters therein.
On the other hand, that's about it. The Tenants of Moonbloom isn't horrible. It's simply... uncompelling? Unmemorable? In any case, it's a novel which you can pick up, spend a few enjoyable hours with, then put down and forget all about. Then, months later, when you see it lying besides your sofa, you can begin the process all over again.
lyrical, musical, surprisingly earthy.......2004-02-17
Wallant takes a fairly common premise--Norman Moonbloom works as an agent for his brother Irving's tenements, popping into and out of the tenants' lives to collect the rent--and makes it into an effective and moving vision of moral and social dislocation. There are elderly Holocaust survivors, stoned jazzbos, a young married couple, an od married couple, old cranks, a horny young Chinese-American guy, even a James Baldwin character, all of whom seem somehow marooned and desperate for Norman's attentions. Wallant presents each of them with grace and economy, sketching a vision of early-60s NYC that's somehow cheering despite the pervasive despair. By turns lyrical and earthy, this novel is wonderfully thought-provoking as an allegory (is Norman a Christ figure?) and equally enthralling as a minutely-noted tour through a vanished city.
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If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn't beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who'd died for the third time in a month—and not a rent payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Dean's dog started biting fire hydrants and Gloria started kissing, being a landlord turned out to be a lot more work than being a kid.
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The Young Land Lords.......2000-12-09
A group of friends called the action group saw a building that was in bad condition. They went to the owner and complaied and the owner sent them some papers for them to sign. They waited for the papers to come in, the papers came in and they siged them and thats how they came the young land lords.At the end the building had new land lords. I thik the title is good with the story, because the young land lords had adventurein the story. Irecommend this book to any one that like aventure, because the book had a lot of adventure.
Best Book I've Ever Read by Meyers.......1999-01-16
The recently started "Action Group" is a group composed of 6 teenagers. They have many things to do, on the top of the list, save the world. The enthusiastic group buys a building for $1 and they didn't know what they were getting themselves into. Six tennants, which none of pay rent, leaky toilets, and more was what they got into. Just when they think that they had it bad, they find out that one of the Action Grouppies, Chris gets sent to jail because he supposedly stole some stero equiptment. Read about the 5 remaining members who fix up the building and try to make everything better, they even try to prove Chris innocent.
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