As a long-time resident of New Jersey (Jersey City, NJ since 1996 and current resident of Union City, NJ since 2019) I have noticed serious irregularities in following  of the NJ State Law, in particular violations of the NJ Eviction Law in landlord/tenant relations. The ruthless Real Estate owners of the rent controlled properties, due to their wealthy financial status seem to be above the law while concocting false evidence (I.e. overstated tenants debts, allegations of non-payment or underpayment of the rent, etc.) against their own tenants. They manage to cleverly inflate the Annual Rent Increase by purposely miscalculating the amount of the tenants’ rent. In the Rent Increase letter they put the correct annual increase percentage but the calculated new rent amount is usually twice or three times higher than what it supposed to be. Since tenants usually accept such letters without verification or recalculation of the rent increase, the “slumlords” usually get away with it. They also manage to illegally evict long-time tenants for the sole purpose of the unit conversions, for example from one bedroom into a two bedrooms that follow an enormous rent increase for the prospective new tenant (Eviction Law: 2A:18-61.8 Owner liability for wrongful eviction). They also manage to obtain a Court order to lock tenants out from their homes to steal their belongings and later to either sell those to other tenants or simply they keep them for themselves. Let’s stop these greedy landlords from abusing and victimizing their religiously rent paying tenants NOW!  

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