The lease situation is the part with real teeth. Someone signed a year-long lease two months ago. That is a contract. The building converting to a hotel does not dissolve that contract, and being told you can finish out your lease while hotel guests move onto your floor is not the same thing as the quiet residential building you agreed to live in. What you signed and what you are now being offered are two meaningfully different things.
So now, A building that requires key card access for security reasons is now propping those doors open for furniture deliveries has essentially suspended the safety feature tenants were paying for, without asking anyone.
As I said, landlords, in theory, are generally required to honor existing leases, and a significant change in the nature of the building mid-lease is the kind of thing worth asking a tenant’s rights attorney about, many of whom offer free consultations. A local tenant advocacy organization would also be a reasonable first call. The residents who signed leases most recently likely have the strongest standing.
The building had a plan. The plan just did not originally include telling anyone about it.
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Author: Kayitsi.com
