Word: landlordism
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...after answering the ad in September, Qian said he was shown the apartment by a man claiming to be the landlord. He then made out an $800 check to the man and was told he could pick up his key on Oct. 1, Qian said...
Soon after, the man called Qian and told him he would have to wait until Oct. 3 before he could move in. But this date came and went, and Qian was unable to contact the supposed landlord...
Richmond McCoy had come a long way since the days when he marched door to door with his landlord father to collect, or not collect, rent checks in Harlem. His McCoy Realty Group had become the largest real estate management firm controlled by an African American, and his Park Avenue headquarters in Manhattan catered to Wall Street bigs, but that was not enough for McCoy. Spurred by Sterling Green, an apostle of the United House of Prayer in Washington, McCoy, 45, began helping churches develop property in poor neighborhoods. "I felt God was nudging me in a different direction...
...landlord had some families living in six two-bedroom apartments for eight to nine hundred a month five years ago," Chaplin says. "Now, they're up to 1,400 and that's happening everywhere. I don't know where regular people are supposed to live anymore...
...While we didn't initiate the decision to move, it just made sense for everybody," she said. "It will give the new tenant and the landlord an opportunity to make some money...