NYC fields hundreds of complaints over new broker fee ban – but just 2 refunds issued so far
NY Post
No “fare.”
Hundreds of complaints about New York City’s new broker fee ban have been filed since the law went into effect over the summer — but only two real estate agents have been forced to reimburse tenants who were wrongly charged, The Post has learned.
Israel Mendlewicz, of real estate brokerage Urban Pads, was ordered to return a $4,480 broker fee he charged tenants for a rent-stabilized Brooklyn apartment in June, the month the Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses (FARE) Act went into effect.
He claimed the tenants had agreed to hire him as a broker for the apartment, on Dean Street in Crown Heights — and griped that he must now shell out a $750 civil penalty in addition to the returned fee.
“[The tenant] was out of town and was looking for an apartment – and agreed to hire me,” Mendlewicz fumed to The Post.
The first-of-its-kind judgement followed an administrative hearing, according to the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
A new Clemson University report found dozens of social media accounts associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) pushing anti-Israel and anti-U.S. content to sow online discord during the ongoing Iran-U.S. war.
Donald Trump has always been the anti-Obama.
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One of the alleged ISIS-driven bombing suspects accused of unleashing terror on a protest outside of Gracie Mansion was once an internet-savvy entrepreneur who made his money coding sneaker-buying bots, according to reports.
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“Israel made us do it.” — Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Wednesday
Ernie Anastos, the legendary Big Apple news anchor who worked for several top tristate television stations, has died, according to a report.
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A heroic ROTC student fatally stabbed the crazed ISIS-linked gunman who opened fire inside an Old Dominion University classroom Thursday, preventing further carnage, law enforcement sources said.
The sinister media soft-soaping of Saturday’s ISIS bomb attack on the Upper East Side shows exactly whose side these corrupted news organizations are on — and it’s not yours.