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Hey Bushwick: Do You Know How To Make Sure Your House Isn’t Collapsing?

In a city where everyone has a housing horror story, Preston Pujol's tale of woe, reported by Annette Konoske Graf in the Brooklyn Ink last week, is still a knockout

Hey Bushwick: Do You Know How To Make Sure Your House Isn’t Collapsing?

Hey Bushwick: Do You Know How To Make Sure Your House Isn’t Collapsing?

In a city where everyone has a housing horror story, Preston Pujol's tale of woe, reported by Annette Konoske Graf in the Brooklyn Ink last week, is still a knockout

Hey Bushwick: Do You Know How To Make Sure Your House Isn’t Collapsing?
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In a city where everyone has a housing horror story, Preston Pujol’s tale of woe, reported by Annette Konoske Graf in the Brooklyn Ink last week, is still a knockout. If you had just moved to New York and found a place on Craigslist, the last thing you’d want to hear a few days after moving in was that you needed to move out again because the building is collapsing. Pujol’s un-sweet new pad was at 494 Wilson Ave, right by Irving Square park and it collapsed last week. It sounds like he got his money back, but jeez, how’s that for a warm welcome to the Big Apple.

And unfortunately, it’s all too easy for this kind of thing to happen. It’s easy to talk dirt on landlords, but when it’s advantageous for both proprietors and tenants to…

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