Renting Your First Apartment In Brooklyn – See NYC Public Advocates 2018 Landlord Watch List

Will You Be Renting Your First Apartment  In Brooklyn  – Make Sure Your New Landlord is not on  NYC  Public Advocate Worst Landlord Watch  List

Renting your first apartment in Brooklyn?   Make sure that your new landlord , property owner/  property manager is not on the NYC Public Advocates worst landlord watch List.

Visit : NYC Landlord Watch List 2018

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Things To Consider When Renting Your First Apartment in Brooklyn

Consider  your expenses :  Gas & Electric, oil heat, water

Is there  laundry service nearby 

Can you get wi-fi connection in the building or area – Type of cable, satellite, or streaming service available

Will your wireless phone work in the building or apartment

What type of furniture will you need

What type and condition of appliances will be included

Who is responsible for recycling the garbage

Should you get renters insurance

Location of  trains , bus lines, local parks, stores and other neighborhood amenities

Are pets allowed 

Can I get a roommate/ are shares allowed

More About renting in NYC and your rights as a tenant in NYC –  HPD Tenants Rights

                                                          : Looking For An Apartment To Rent In Brooklyn 

Call: Michele Cadogan

917-861-9166

Fillmore Real Estate

Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker

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2 Bedroom Troy Ave Old Mill Basin Brooklyn Apartment For Rent $1,800 per month

 

2 Bedroom Troy Ave Old Mill Basin  Brooklyn Apartment For Rent $1,800 per month

 

 

Brokers Fee $1,800

1st Month Rent $1,800

Security $1,800

 

Spacious well maintained 2nd Floor Flatalnds / Old Mill Basin   Brooklyn apartment for rent– Ideal Location close proximity to Bus service , shopping, local parks, schools and much more.

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If you are looking for an apartment to rent in Flatlands / Old Mill Basin  Brooklyn Call

Michele Cadogan 

917-861-9166

Fillmore Real Estate

Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker

 

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Things to Know When Renting an apartment in Brooklyn ?

 

 

Renting an apartment in Brooklyn – Make sure that your unit is not an illegal conversion

December 1st , 2017 New York state Govenor  Cuomo signed the Illegal Comversion Bill into law which was sponsored by Senator Golden and Harris. This law is effective immediately and applies to all residential leases there after.   An illegal home comervision occurs when the home owner subdivides a one or two family home into multi units or rooms to be rents out.  The Illegal Conversion Law to provide notice to tenants showing that the current certificate of occupancy is valid.  In addition in NYC  there is the Aggravated Illegal Conversion Bill which increased  penalities to landlords of illegally converted properties (three or more units )  with fines of $15,000 .

 

For more details:  read ending illegal home conversion for New York tenants.

 

How to report an illegal home conversion in NYC

 

 

 

Brooklyn Home Buyers

– interest rates are at an all time low and there are  homes for sale  available at various price points.

 

Brooklyn Home Owners : Thinking of Selling your home and need to know  how much your Brooklyn Real Estate Home Is Worth , the price of Brooklyn homes for sale currently  on the market,  or simply how is the  the Real Estate Market in Brooklyn , and you are  looking for an agent who will List your Brooklyn Home For Sale,  give you personal service and showcase your    home  with maximum marketing  exposure to get  it sold :  Call me,  Michele Cadogan  at 917-861-9166  for a Free Market Analysis of  your Brooklyn New York Home .

Not ready to buy  and looking for a Brooklyn apartment to rent, call me @ 917-861-9166

So, whether you are thinking of buying , selling or  looking to rent an apartment in Brooklyn, want to know how much  homes in Brooklyn selling for ,  want to know how is the Real Estate Market In Brooklyn  or  the price  of recently  sold Brooklyn homes in your neighborhood, call me at :

917-861-9166 (cell)

Michele Cadogan,SFR

 

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Looking For An Apartment in Brooklyn – Is the Landlord on NYC Worst Landlord List

 

Looking For A New Apartment in Brooklyn   2018 – Make Sure Your New Landlord is not on NYC Worst Landlord List

 

A new year a new you .  So you have decided to bring in the new year with a  new place to call home.  If you are thinking of  renting a new apartment in Brooklyn – NYC  make sure that your new landlord , property owner/  property manager is not on the NYC Public Advocates worst landlord watch List.

Visit is my landlord on NYC Worst Landlord List

 

 

If you are looking to rent an apartment in Brooklyn 

call: Michele Cadogan

917-861-9166

Fillmore Real Estate

Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker

 

 

 

Brooklyn Home Buyers

– interest rates are at an all time low and there are  homes for sale  available at various price points.

 

Brooklyn Home Owners : Thinking of Selling your home and need to know  how much your Brooklyn Real Estate Home Is Worth , the price of Brooklyn homes for sale currently  on the market,  or simply how is the  the Real Estate Market in Brooklyn , and you are  looking for an agent who will List your Brooklyn Home For Sale,  give you personal service and showcase your    home  with maximum marketing  exposure to get  it sold :  Call me,  Michele Cadogan  at 917-861-9166  for a Free Market Analysis of  your Brooklyn New York Home .

Not ready to buy  and looking for a Brooklyn apartment to rent, call me @ 917-861-9166

So, whether you are thinking of buying , selling or  looking to rent an apartment in Brooklyn, want to know how much  homes in Brooklyn selling for ,  want to know how is the Real Estate Market In Brooklyn  or  the price  of recently  sold Brooklyn homes in your neighborhood, call me at :

917-861-9166 (cell)

Michele Cadogan,SFR

 

www.brooklynhomesbymichele.com

917-861-9166

Fillmore real Estate

2926 Ave J, Brooklyn  New York, 11210

 

Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker

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Renting in NYC – New York City Window Guard Law

Renting in NYC – New York City Window Guard Law

NYC Building Owners- Land lords –   The window guard law requires owners of multi family  homes of 3 or more units to provide and install approved window guards on all windows in an apartment where a child aged 10 years or younger resides and in each hallway window.

Exceptions:

– windows that open onto  a fire escape

– a first floor that is a required secondary exit in a  building in which there are fire escapes on the second floor and up

 

The 1976 law was amended  in 1986 requiring notices to be sent to tenants or occupants of multi dwellings in relation to window guards it reads as follows: ” By law , (1) Window Guards Required lease Notice to Tenant or Occupant (appendix A). This form must be completed and returned to management when a new lease is entered into or when a lease is renewed.  In addition, a landlord or management must send an Annual notice to Tenant or Occupant.  This form must also be completed and returned to management.”

If tenants or occupants want window guards for any reason, even if there are no resident children in the covered age category, they should request them in writing.and they may not be refuse

-Grand parents with visting  children

– parents who share intermittent custody

– occupants who provide child care.

The intent of this law is to reduce the incidents of preventable falls and  fatalities .

Souce: nyc.gov

Should your landlord refuse to install a window guard please contact 311

 

Visit NYC Department of Health &  Mental Hygiene  for more information regarding NYC Window Guard Law and Requirements

 

 

Homeowners and landlords in Brooklyn- if you are thinking of selling your home or have a vacant apartment to rent 

Call 917-861-9166

Michele Cadogan

Fillmore Real Estate

Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker

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