Connecting NYC Property Owners With the Officials Who Can Help

0:00 Speaker 1 Ten days to the election. A lot of the real estate people in New York are very, very upset. With us today is Humberto Lopes, and he’s been in the real estate business forever. And the name of his company is HL Dynasty. But he has a new situation, and he has a fear, a resource fear. Well, Humberto, tell

0:26 us about the fear you’re having on October 29th.

0:31 Speaker 2 John, thank you, buddy. It’s October 29th. It’s Gotham Housing Alliance. About a year ago, a year on the 29th of October, we started Gotham Housing Alliance. We’re representing a lot of members have joined, a lot of landlords, a lot of property owners and management companies. Even tenants are joining my organization, believe it or not, to help the mom and pops.

0:53 And what they’re doing is that, you know, we’re getting destroyed in New York City. And for this reason is why I started the Gotham Housing Alliance. Next Thursday, October 29th, from 9.30 to 5, we’re having the largest resource fair so all landlords, property owners, and tenants can come to the event, which is 3335th Street in Brooklyn, in Industry City,

1:16 Sunset Park, they call it. Industry City is the new name. That’s where we’re having this event. We have Six major agencies attending on this event and commissioners, which is the DOB, HBD, DOF, DSS, National Grid. These people are all going to have tables there.

1:37 Speaker 1 And tell me what you want to accomplish.

1:41 Speaker 2 What we’re going to accomplish there is for you, all the landlords to show up. Get the knowledge of the changing of the laws and get their problems resolved. So if they got HPD violations, come down. You got problems with the tenants in the sense of non-payment order, come down.

1:56 You have problems with the finance, you know, your old taxes or whatever, come down. They’ll do agreements for you.

2:03 Speaker 3 You have situations with DEP, come down. All these agencies are going to be there with their computers and all their stuff to resolve the landlord’s problems.

2:14 Speaker 1 And give us the address one more time.

2:17 Speaker 2 3335th Street in Industry City.

2:22 Speaker 1 And do you have a website or email where people can reach you to find out? Yes.

2:29 Speaker 2 You can reach us in. And GothamHousingAlliance.org. Or you can reach us on Instagram, which is also Gotham Housing Alliance or HL underscore Dynasty.

2:45 Speaker 1 Well, Humberto Lopes, thank you so much for calling in and looking forward to having a successful situation. Yes.

2:53 Speaker 2 Thank you, John, again. And this is to help everyone.