In 2017, Leon Goldenberg filed an eviction case against a tenant who had stopped paying rent.
I can’t tell you how the case turned out. More than eight years later, it’s still going.
The increasing difficulty of collecting rent is one of the things Goldenberg wishes he had foreseen a decade ago. As the owner and manager of more than 2,500 units, many of them rent-stabilized, he would have gotten out before things got this bad…