Landlord Blacklisting
Does your landlord suck? If so, I’m sure you’ve complained to whoever will listen. Why not complain to the whole world on a searchable database of crappy landlords? A friend of mine has set up DontRentFrom.com, where you can anonymously enter info about your landlord or management company where anyone can see it. Definitely useful in Bushwick, and in the rest of Brooklyn and all of New York as well. It’s a no-frills tool that hopefully, if it becomes widespread, could have some effect in the rental market. Check it out!
May 30th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
The bad thing about this is tenants that are awful, and write untrue things about their landlords. Would there be any defamation of character lawsuits possible if something was written against a good landlord.
May 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Well, they could reply to the listing. Of course a tenant blacklist would be a horror of horrors for the something-for-nothing type. Hey, it’s not the terror watchlist, at least.