Meier,
Is this some kind of a sick joke? You threw me - a sick man who is suffering from several chronic conditions - out of my apartment after I have been living in the building nearly 19 years (March 15 would mark this anniversary) on the snow in the middle of a dead Winter with temperature below 20 F, and now you sending me this Notice?
I got an Eviction Notice without receiving any prior communication from Lafayette Management - verbal or written, and I was not served Summons either, because if I were, you know I would have shown my face in Court. So, clearly there was something not quite kosher done to ensure that I would not show for my Court date and lose the case by default. That was a very ugly and dirty move below waist!
You knew that I was going through a financial hardship yet between September 2011 - the month I lost my job - and February 2015 I did my best paying rent each month. Sure, I would sometimes underpay since I also had to cover my other bills and feed myself. You would not take my calls because you were unwilling to come to any understanding and/or arrangement and meet me half way while enduring this hardship.
You stole all of my belongings - furniture, household appliances, kitchen appliances, kitchen cabinets, range hood, refrigerator, dishwasher, china, crystal glasses, platters, utensils, silverware, three air condition units, microwave, electric cattle, chandelier in the hallway, candle chandelier in the living room, fireplace, Tempur-pedic queen size mattress and mahogany bed-frame ($3,000 value alone!), three (3) oil paintings of my deceased father Waclaw Kolacz - a master of fine arts, other artworks, electronics (amplifier, loudspeakers, double-deck, five CD changer, cassette to CD recorder, VHS to DVD recorder combo, all-regions universal DVD player, Sony TV, HDTV antenna, two wireless land-line telephone units (new), FiOS equipment, etc.), DELL desktop PC, All-in-one Hewlett Packard printer, hundreds of CDs, couple dozens of DVDs, all of my wardrobe, all of my shoe-wear, bed linen, towels, light fixtures, lamps, books in Polish language, English books, albums with family photographs, family heirlooms, framed photos of my family dated all the way to 1870, my deceased fathers Master of Fine Arts degree, my fathers World War II award original certificates awarded and signed by president of Poland Lech Walesa, my deceased fathers personal letters sent to me between 1990 and 1997, and dozens of other items of emotional value, two dozens of my own framed photography, all of my Rembrandt brand oil paints, brushes and other high quality artistic supplies (parched paper for watercolors, sketching pad-blocks, canvas, etc.) and other items that I cannot even remember I had.
NJ Eviction Law states clearly:
2A:18-81. Compliance with act constitutes complete defense Compliance in good faith with all the requirements of this act shall constitute a complete defense in any action brought by a tenant against a landlord for loss or damage to personal property disposed of pursuant to this act. L.1999,c.340,s.12.
2A:18-82. Noncompliance with act; tenant’s recovery If a landlord seizes and retains a tenant’s personal property without complying with this act, the tenant shall be relieved of any liability for reimbursement to the landlord for storage and removal costs and shall be entitled to recover up to twice the actual damages sustained by the tenant. L.1999, c.340, s.13
According to these articles you should protect my property and make it available for me to claim it all. Instead you simply took what I achieved with hard work an sweat after my immigration to the US and denied me to even recover my personal documents and belongings of emotional values.
The last time my family endured similar circumstances was during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, when Gestapo threw out my grandmother with my mother - then 7-year-old girl - from their apartment building but that was a time of war.
My deceased father who was proclaimed the Righteous Among the Nations for risking his own life hiding Jews during World War II, in the face of such human greed and utter callousness towards my humble self is probably turning over in his grave, because instead of helping me, you stabbed me with the proverbial knife in the back.
Regards,
Alex Lutomirski-Kolacz
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