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" ( http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/battle_over_their_life_of_luck_xury_LpvCndg7wGhMbqNCb4MjGK from NY POST)565 West 181st Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan Anna Patetosios, 80, moved from Greece to New York City in 1961. She and husband Demetrios rented their Washington Heights apartment for $65/month the next year. .... Patetosios' youngest son, Panayotis, 43, became a cardiovascular surgeon. "Without rent control, my brother would have been a dishwasher," said her eldest son, Petros, 47. .... Petros worries about his elderly mom, who just had a triple bypass and collects a measly $484 a month in Social Security. At the dining room table - he opens her rent bill - $119.68, plus an additional $112.63 fuel charge. "There's no way she could afford anything," he said. Two other elderly building residents pay $107.98 and $136.15 Petros, a small business owner, fiercely defends the protection his mother enjoyed for 47 years. He has no desire to inherit the pad where he grew up either. He said the landlord collects higher rents from 16 other units, including a neighbor across the hall forking over $1,400 a month. "They're making more than enough money," he said."

Quickly, I need some rent control contracts in my name for $texas

5/29/2011 11:13:08 AM

Time for the surgeon son to hook it up for moms. What the hell?

5/29/2011 11:30:13 AM

I live in Manhattan in a formerly rent controlled building. I pay $3200/month. Asshole across the hall (basically same apt) pays $400/month.

Makes me

5/29/2011 11:30:29 AM

First!

5/29/2011 11:34:08 AM

I pay $1650 for my 1 BDRM I think most people pay $1750 TALK ABOUT A SAVINGS!

5/29/2011 11:40:31 AM

The house I live in is $1700/month...ocean front

5/29/2011 12:02:57 PM

paying $400 rent > paying $3200 rent

making NYC money > making Raleigh money


tough one

5/29/2011 12:09:50 PM

What is this 'rent control'? Honestly have never heard of it

Also how do I get it

5/29/2011 1:25:33 PM

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""They're making more than enough money," he said."

I wonder how he would feel if he got paid hourly at $7.50/hr. That would be more than enough money...

5/29/2011 1:36:08 PM

I always wondered how the rent in the apartment above Jerry's was only $400/month. Adjusted for inflation that's like $650, which seems a bit cheap for the UWS.

5/29/2011 4:03:20 PM

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"I live in Manhattan in a formerly rent controlled building. I pay $3200/month."

Dumb dumb you chose to live there stop complaining

5/29/2011 4:05:25 PM

Fair is fair and that's not fair. He has a right to complain unless the other people are really paying $3200 but someone else is playing the $2800 difference.

5/29/2011 4:08:56 PM

No he needs to shut his snitch ass mouf

5/29/2011 4:20:43 PM

whats rent-control? Never heard of it. Is it some kind of income-based thing?

5/29/2011 4:28:05 PM

its some kind of NYC thing

before my friend's grandma died, she was paying like $250 a month for her apartment in Brooklyn

5/29/2011 4:39:37 PM

Rent control is BS.

My grandfather gets his gas from the same service station for the last 40 years. I have never heard him say he should only have to pay 50 cents a gallon since he has been there for so long. Or suggest lobbying the govt to force the service station to do that.

5/29/2011 4:51:22 PM

that is the worst analogy i've ever heard

i mean, i get if you have an argument against it. but that analogy isn't really valid at all.

5/29/2011 4:52:57 PM

Rent control is basically a price maximum set on rental property in order to keep lower income workers living in an area where they are a necessary part of the work force. It's not just in NYC, but has been in NYC for the longest.

5/29/2011 4:55:57 PM