https://nypost.com/2018/02/28/college-dropout-refuses-to-leave-her-dorm-room/
…Alrighty then! That’s one way to “live the college life” :-??
You know, it’s really hard to get a single, sometimes you just don’t want to give it up! [-X
Lol
Here is another one - also at Hunter - https://nypost.com/2018/02/16/hospital-worker-kept-crash-pad-in-college-dorm-for-decades-suit/
They moved her to another room. If they wanted her out, they should have left her in the old room.
Well it sounds as if nurses were allowed rooms if they worked at the hospital prior Hunter taking over the property so they got grandfathered in (at least that’s their argument). The one nurse who just moved out was an original worker but paid rent (although not much).
The article mentioned there were 30 nurses now down to nine.
That’s different than the girl who isn’t going to school. I really can’t understand why the sheriff doesn’t just come and put her and her dirty dishes out on the lawn. For some reason she thinks the school owes her free rent while she’s working elsewhere. Talk about entitlement.
I’m sure it is some squatter’s right issue. She claimed they wouldn’t let her register for classes.
However, both schools look bad that they can’t hire someone to do an eviction. Yes, tenants have rights, but so do landlords. File the suit, set it for trial, prove that she hasn’t paid for 10 years, and the court will issue the eviction. Then the sheriff (or whoever) needs to do the eviction (physically put the belongings out on the curb). No one gets to stay without paying.
Seems like a major security issue to me given current events over the last few years. A person unaffiliated with the school has access to student housing???
Why hasn’t she been arrested for criminal trespassing? How is she even accessing the building? We never toured Hunter, but most of the schools that we did tour made it clear that a student badge was required to be scanned in order to access the building.
“Why hasn’t she been arrested for criminal trespassing?”
Not defending this woman at all, but housing laws are different, and NYC housing laws very different-er. 
An afternoon at NYC housing court is a very memorable experience.
Yep, NYC laws are crazy -
If a squatter in New York City can prove he’s resided in a property for more than 30 days, he has a right to continue living there until the legal owner goes through a court process to obtain a legal eviction. This can be time-consuming, taking up to a year. It is against New York City law to evict anyone immediately, including a squatter.
My family in Brooklyn has seen neighbors struggle to kick out tenants who simply stop paying rent and continue living there.
They need to offer a settlement. Tell her is she moves out within the next 10 days, then her entire bill will be written off with no further collection efforts.
Why settle ? Because nothing else has worked.
I can’t say I’d make a very good landlord. Hang a tarp across the window while doing “maintenance” for several weeks at a time. Turn the heat down to 59 (or up to 89 if summer.) Paint often. Gotta keep the place up if you want to attract the good tenants…
She’s not moving out because her rent would go to 3500 a month from a cool ZERO.
Don’t know what she works at doing at an architecture firm but as a geography major with no degree it can’t be lucrative.
I’m sure a dorm room is better than being homeless.
NYC tenant-landlord laws are very skewed. Great for tenant, not so great for landlord. If you’ve ever been a landlord anywhere you’d shudder to even read the NY law.
What she really needs is to sit down with someone and come up with a life plan to get out of her present situation. I can’t imagine she’s happy living her life this way (I hope not). I’m sure to her she’s surviving but can’t grasp how to get out of her situation.
She probably needs to move to a cheaper area, go to CC and start over–but doesn’t know how to get there.
Even in the non-security age when I was in college, the dorms shut completely down when school wasn’t in session. And, at some point, all of the locks were changed so that previous residents couldn’t just walk into your room. I’m also curious as to how she accesses the building and even her room.