NYC couple performs rental ‘shakedown’ using paper-trail scheme to keep the apartment their landlord wants to sell: Lawsuit

If you love something, let it go. But, in the case of one Brooklyn home, it’s not always so easy.

A landlord is accusing a Section 8 tenant of orchestrating a brazen “shakedown” — using allegedly forged signatures, fake lease renewals, even a quiet exit to a new apartment — all while keeping its Borough Park condominium unit hostage, according to a new lawsuit.

Eretz One Realty paints a wild picture of its tenants gaming the system while renting one of the company’s apartments in the six-story condo on 15th Avenue, according to court documents filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court…

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