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Yeah, I was livid. He had a great deal at $2100/month WITH utilities. This is fucking Queens, New York City. 20 minutes train ride to Times Square.

The sublease expired, and he said he would only pay $1600/month INCLUDING utilities. I said, FUCK NO. I told him $2150 INCLUDING utilities. He refused. Didn't pay rent for a year -- he claimed that he had cancer, and that he was furloughed at half pay during the COVID pandemic.

I told him, please pay $1850/month at least, but with the understanding that you owe $300/month in backrent that we can claim from the government to pay for COVID pandemic reimbursement from the government. He refused.

I was seething after that, but I didn't show anger, because you don't want to cause scenes in landlord/tenant/sublease situations. So it was like that for a year, until I got sick and realized that the pipes underneath the toilet bathroom of the apartment were starting to rot, and needed repair -- which gave me the idea to remove the toilet as an excuse to claim that the entire apartment needed to be repaired.