Good while it lasted: Tenant paid $1 rent for 5 months

For five months, a tenant in East Harlem paid $1 a month in rent because his landlord, Isaac Kassirer’s Emerald Equity Group, did not file paperwork to a regulator. But what seemed like a lucky break — born from a bad one — didn’t last. Last year, Yuri Kavalerchick returned to his East Harlem apartment to find that a pile of debris and construction materials outside of his bedroom window was on fire, sending up

source https://therealdeal.com/2019/12/26/good-while-it-lasted-tenant-paid-1-rent-for-5-months/