‘Serial grifter’ avoids eviction from
woman’s West Village home: suit
by
Kathianne Boniello
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/23/2020 11:29:22 AM
A West Villager has been tormented for more than a year by a messy, obstinate roommate who has been refusing to pay rent or move out, according to shocking court papers. Barrow Street resident Heidi Russell’s short-term renter, Kate Gladstone, is a “serial grifter” who has become a long-term nightmare, taking over her apartment, repeatedly spritzing her with cleaning chemicals and basically squatting for free, the court papers claim. It’s been so unbearable, Russell often flees her two-bedroom apartment during the day, just to get away from Gladstone.(Snip) Making matters worse, on Saturday a judge ruled that due to the ongoing pandemic
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/23/2020 11:45:16 AM (No. 518395)
I remember there are movies with this plot line.
Reality bites!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Petronius 8/23/2020 11:57:08 AM (No. 518411)
Sounds to me like they all deserve each other.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/23/2020 11:58:01 AM (No. 518412)
Thank God I live in my own home and only my wife and I share it!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snapper451 8/23/2020 12:08:52 PM (No. 518424)
That's what you get in NY and you are young and stupid, living in the "village".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/23/2020 12:12:15 PM (No. 518426)
I would move out and leave no forwarding address. Or simply punch him/her in the face before rolling him/her down the stairs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/23/2020 12:13:48 PM (No. 518429)
When police and courts won't enforce the law it becomes necessary to do so ourselves - for ourselves and FOR our neighbors. Her neighbors shoould stand together to prevent this court-imposed evil - shoulder to shoulder. Arms probably would not be necessary to block this pig who feeds off of others.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/23/2020 12:35:29 PM (No. 518449)
Seriously? Throw her stuff in the street and change the locks on the door.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/23/2020 12:37:12 PM (No. 518450)
Give her a free ticket to the Judge's house. See how he likes it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rochow 8/23/2020 12:44:21 PM (No. 518458)
Put different lock on the door. With the help of another 'friend' cuff the non payer, drop her on the doorstep of the moron judge, throw the remains of your own belonging in a van, leave, most other people in NYC do..... come back after some time to check if your place is still there or has been burned down, broken in, whatever. Let the judge deal with the nonsense. She sounds like a lefty looloooooo anyway, as do the 2 dames fighting each other.
I guess as a landlord, apt. owner, whatever you have no rights any longer anyway!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/23/2020 1:10:40 PM (No. 518481)
If you watch Judge Judy, you will see her handling 'tenant from Hell' cases from time to time.
NYS/NYC, along with left coast states, provide all sorts of protections for tenants,even without considering the Kung Flu pandemic laws.
This is the game, as played by the tenants.
Rent a room.
behave badly.
don't pay your rent.
Landlord gives you a 30 day eviction notice.
Tenant goes to court, obtains an emergency temporary protection from mental/physical abuse order.
The PFA stops the clock on the 30 day eviction notice, and a hearing date is set.
The tenant fails to show for the hearing, so the hearing is rescheduled, usually 30 days later, but the eviction is stayed..
The tenant fails to show at the new hearing, so the PFA is dropped.
the landlord gives the tenant a new 30 day eviction notice.
the tenant goes to court and obtains a new PFA.
And so it goes on and on,l and when the tenant is finally evicted by the court, the tenant finds a new sucker and does it all over again.
many people who rent out a room are under financial stress, and don't check with prior landlords. And prior landlords are not willing to say anything about the tenant's behavoir, because if they give a bad recommendation, the tenant will sue them for libel/slander.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/23/2020 1:15:04 PM (No. 518486)
"Making matters worse, on Saturday a judge ruled that due to the ongoing pandemic eviction ban, Gladstone is entitled to stay in the apartment for the time being — virtually sentencing Russell to nearly six more weeks with her tormenter."
There are people out there that want the pandemic to never end, There are states that might actually try that.
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Undoubtedly the primary tenant is a Democrat who is now reaping the rewards of putting stupid liberals in charge who create laws totally in favor of deadbeat subtenants — laws passed on the strength of emotional sob stories and not realities.
Someone should turn her in for collecting rent and not paying income tax on it. It’s income, after all. Let her enjoy the full fruits of being a liberal.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2020 1:32:46 PM (No. 518507)
A bit of imagination could make this person just leave.
She "spritzes with cleaning solution".....how about an ammonia spray in your face every morning in response?
Maybe cooking some really, really nasty stuff, day after day, stuff that stinks to high heaven. Maybe loud music at all hours. There are ways to make people WANT to move.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/23/2020 1:54:00 PM (No. 518528)
The problem in cases like this is that if the "good" guy fights back, the bad guy files a PSA and wins in court. Dealing with issues like this takes a lot of time, patience and money.
The key is a background check and an iron clad lease agreement. Once a person allows another to enter their home and worse, gives them a key, all bets are off. If you allow someone to stay in your home and they rob you blind, your only recourse is in the civil courts. Law enforcement WILL state that your problem is a civil matter.
This woman's best solution id to bruise herself up, find a friend willing to be a "witness" to an assault and then call the police. Sounds bad......but its only a matter of time until her freeloading roommate does exactly that.
The lesson here is to never take on a roommate. Live alone and never give someone the keys or codes to your home.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/23/2020 2:11:02 PM (No. 518537)
Pardon second post...
Something I heard about only a few days ago. There is a website where a person can go on, and request a rental. They give their requirements, etc. The landlords contact them. The landlords don't explicitly advertise and can pick the potential tenants they want. This was over in Germany, btw. Don't know if it exists in the USA. Might help reduce the possibility of getting the tenant from hell.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
iraengneer 8/23/2020 2:44:05 PM (No. 518556)
And, as ever, enabled and worsened by "nitwits in black robes", feral judges. Can we PLEASE forbid shyster lawyers from ever being judges at ANY level, SCOTUS included?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Penny Spencer 8/23/2020 2:58:19 PM (No. 518568)
The idea of a hit man comes to mind. In fact, as things stand in NYC these days, you could probably get the job done for nothing. Seriously, couldn't Russell charge the roommate with assault for spraying her with chemicals?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/23/2020 2:59:10 PM (No. 518569)
The article says its a cop-op. I thought they had strict rules about who can live in the building. Seems like the should have some ideas on getting rid of the squatter.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/23/2020 3:08:59 PM (No. 518581)
She has a FB page under the Kate Gladstone name.
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For those commenting and didn't read the article, she did change the locks. The perp sued to get back inside. Judge sided with the "renter". That's what the hearing was about.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/23/2020 3:18:45 PM (No. 518595)
It seems like lesbians find that one thing that gets under each other's skin and latches on to it and exploits it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
raphaela 8/23/2020 3:50:29 PM (No. 518628)
Maybe the answer would be to hire some big, smelly dude to live in her place for a short term, spelled out in a contract, and see if that would frighten the tenant from hell to move out. Someone who doesn't wash his hands and definitely doesn't wear a mask.
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Adventures in renting a room, part 2: psychopath rents a room, refuses to pay the rent, then assumes full control over the domicile, rendering the landlord unwelcome in her own home. In a diverse twist, both the landlord and the tenant are lesbians; the latter doesn't care that they are a mutually supporting community of wymyn showing the patriarchy how to do things.