YourNabe Queens elected officials last week applauded Vantage, a real estate investment company that owns 88 residential buildings in the borough, for signing a three-year contract with the union representing the apartments’ superintendents. Vantage Management Services, part of Vantage Properties, announced the deal with the union, Teamsters Local 808, that followed months of negotiations last Read More »
NYDAILY News A Queens landlord that has taken heat for the way it manages its rent-regulated apartments has agreed to its first contract with the union representing its superintendents, company officials said Tuesday. Vantage Management Services, a part of Vantage Properties, has inked a three-year deal to give its supers from Teamsters Local 808 a raise Read More »
Queens Chronicle When the Queens Chronicle did a brief, informal survey of some tenants at several apartment buildings owned by Vantage Properties last week, the biggest complaint heard was about a broken closet that needed fixing. Reeve Topchiev, a tenant at the Saxon Hall building in Rego Park, claimed that when he called the firm, Read More »
From YourNabe.com Vantage Properties, which owns more than 80 buildings in Queens, agreed to pay $1 million to compensate harassed tenants as part of a settlement that state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The settlement comes after Cuomo said at the end of January that he planned to sue Vantage to stop it from Read More »
‘Absolutely elated’ by A.G. probe of landlord BY Daniel Edward Rosen DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 4th 2010, 10:52 AM THE STATE attorney general’s decision to go after one of Queens’ most controversial landlords won’t deter a group of tenants from moving ahead with its own lawsuit, the tenants’ attorney said yesterday. Rob McCreanor, a lawyer Read More »
NY Times State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that he intends to sue a major New York landlord that he says harassed hundreds of tenants in rent-regulated apartments in Queens and Manhattan in a systematic effort to force their departure to create vacancies for higher-paying tenants. The landlord, Vantage Properties, routinely filed eviction Read More »
Poorly maintained apartments, unfair late charges and confusing bills– are among the many accusations leveled at the Queens landlord Vantage Properties in the past two years. Many disgruntled tenants have claimed that Vantage’s business model is to push rent-stabilized tenants out and to replace them with tenants who pay the ”market rate.” In the past week, there have been signs that this adversarial relationship may be thawing. Read More »
Vantage Properties, a Queens landlord that owns several apartment buildings in Sunnyside and Woodside, was ordered last month by the Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development to provide live-in superintendents in their buildings. The company had begun replacing the superintendents in May, through the introduction of a 24-hour hotline. However, this policy was subject to heavy Read More »
Vantage Properties, a residential real estate company that owns many buildings in Sunnyside and Woodside, removed 14 superintendents from buildings it owns and replaced them with 24-hour call in numbers. The reason: cost cutting. But tenants were upset because Vantage failed to respond when tenants called in with repairs and other concerns. The following is the latest development. Vantage Ordered To Restore Supers By Read More »
There are many Vantage Properties in Sunnyside and Woodside. For the most part, the company has taken poorly-maintained buildings and upgraded them. In doing so, the neighborhood looks the better for it. However, many Vantage tenants claim the refurbishments are a mechanism to lift rents and kick them out. There’s pros and cons to the Read More »
