NY: Hunter College trying to evict dropout from dorm
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems the college needs a better lawyer or maybe this is apparently not a high priority.
quote:
College dropout refuses to leave her dorm room
She loves the college life — just not the classes.
Hunter College is waging a court battle to evict a stubborn student who refuses to leave her dorm room some two years after dropping out.
Delaware native Lisa S. Palmer — who has not paid rent since 2016 — refuses to leave Room E579 at the school’s 425 E. 25th St. co-ed dormitory, according to an eviction lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The 32-year-old “racked up a staggering $94,000 in unpaid residence hall charges on account of her continued occupancy, all the while ignoring Hunter College’s service of additional vacate notices,” said the suit.
“As of today, June 7, 2016 you are still in occupancy of the aforementioned room,” Michell Quock, assistant director of residence life, wrote to Palmer two summers ago.
Last fall a Hunter attorney continued the battle to get rid of Palmer, sending her an eviction notice that said in bold-faced type: “THIRTY DAY NOTICE OF TERMINATION.”
“You are required to vacate and surrender the premises on or before Oct. 31, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.,” the attorney wrote.
But the former geography major, who now works for an architecture firm, refused to budge.
“I plan on fighting the lawsuit and while I fight it, I’m going to stay,” Palmer told The Post from outside her messy, 100-square-foot single, which is adorned with a lava lamp, a dream catcher and piles of dirty dishes.
Though school officials say Palmer dropped out, she insists Hunter refused to let her register for fall 2016 classes after she disputed her housing and tuition bill.
“I felt that it was a miscommunication initially, but after I met with the dean I felt that they were starting to treat me unfairly. It was like, ‘Get out,’” she said.
Only full-time students who maintain a minimum grade point average and keep current on their room and board fees can stay in the dorms, the suit says.
Palmer, who first enrolled in Hunter in 2010 after a stint at St. John’s University in Queens, said dorm life is “really lonely” for someone in her 30s.
“I feel very isolated,” she said, noting that Hunter moved her to a wing that’s only occupied by a middle-aged nurse, whom the college is also trying to evict.
The college wants to boot a total of nine nurses who were given rooms in various wings of the E. 25th Street building when it was owned by Bellevue Hospital.
The resident nurses include 67-year-old Derek DeFreitas who kept a dormitory room “crash pad” at the address for decades.
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV
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March 01, 2018, 05:14 PM
Georgeair
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March 01, 2018, 05:23 PM
Lord Vaalic
If she was white she would had been forcibly removed by police by now
Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day
March 01, 2018, 05:23 PM
LS1 GTO
!. Change the locks when she leaves for work or food. 2. Cut power to the room. 3. Toss her stuff out the window.
Of course she could just scream racism and equate her plight to thousands of illegals currently in NY as her basis for staying.
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March 01, 2018, 05:29 PM
mikeyspizza
The school needs a new attorney. The school should have petitioned the court a long time ago.
March 01, 2018, 05:32 PM
tatortodd
32 years old and living in a college dorm.
They need the jaws of life not an attorney to pry that leach out of the dorm room.
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March 01, 2018, 05:38 PM
pbramlett
all that shit should fit in a dumpster just fine. Change the lock.
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March 01, 2018, 05:50 PM
Scoutmaster
All part of the growing victim/entitlement syndrome. I have been a victim (or someone/anyone I identify with); therefore I have a right to ignore the rules and laws, and to live on someone else's dime.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
March 01, 2018, 05:54 PM
jljones
quote:
Originally posted by mikeyspizza: The school needs a new attorney. The school should have petitioned the court a long time ago.
In Kentucky, roughly 30 days after the eviction paperwork was taped to the door, she'd be given the opportunity to leave. If she refused, sheriff's deputies would pack her shit, and escort her to the curb. Any nonsense and she'd get locked up. And all of her shit left on the curb.
But, its NY so this is probably ok, and she probably will win $40k in a suit against the college for wrongful something or other.
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March 01, 2018, 05:56 PM
cas
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The college wants to boot a total of nine nurses who were given rooms in various wings of the E. 25th Street building when it was owned by Bellevue Hospital.
This must be a BIG part of the story because at my school they would have just re-cored the locks on day one.
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March 01, 2018, 05:59 PM
konata88
We see a lot of this type of crap in the news.
Of all the little shits that pull this type of crap, how many are conservatives?
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March 01, 2018, 06:07 PM
nhtagmember
why not arrest her and toss her in jail with bail equal to what she owes the University?
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March 01, 2018, 06:14 PM
Strambo
No sympathy from me as no doubt it is a liberal indoctrination center.
She should just tell them she crossed their University border in search of a better life! That makes her an "immigrant" entitled to all sorts of "free" stuff.
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Originally posted by konata88: We see a lot of this type of crap in the news.
Of all the little shits that pull this type of crap, how many are conservatives?
At least some are.
You tend to see it with some of the kooky far-right sovereign citizen/milita-type squatters, for example.
March 01, 2018, 06:43 PM
Graniteguy
Well deserved. Reap what you sow. I hope a judge rules in her favor and lets her stay until she's 45.
March 01, 2018, 07:28 PM
spunk639
Don't make the black girls angry.
March 01, 2018, 07:32 PM
TigerDore
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Palmer... said dorm life is “really lonely” for someone in her 30s.
Yeah, another reason you shouldn't be there. You're not Will Ferrell and this isn't a movie.
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March 01, 2018, 09:40 PM
rburg
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Originally posted by jljones:
In Kentucky,she'd be given the opportunity to leave. If she refused, sheriff's deputies would pack her shit, and escort her to the curb.
Don't laugh, it happens from time to time. The neighbors treat it as a big lawn sale, with everything free. I have no idea why it all happens. I'd guess some have moved to the local jail and can't move their own shit. Others maybe just vanish. Some may be missing as in dead. Others have no place or way to move it.
In the OPs story, I like the idea of helping her move to a dumpster. She could live there as long as she found it comfortable. Subsequent moves would be easy as the dumpster could be viewed as a camper.
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March 01, 2018, 10:26 PM
braillediver
I had a friend who did evictions- They used an open dumpster.
I think knowing the name of the architecture firm she works for is news worthy.
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March 01, 2018, 10:56 PM
BBMW
And whoever did this would end up in jail for performing an illegal eviction.
This is NYC. Once someone has lived somewhere for 30 days, they can only be forceably removed by court ordered eviction. So the school has to go to housing court, and get a judge to sign the eviction order. It can take a few months to even get to court. And the judges are notoriously pro-tenant, so getting them to issue an eviction is not a given, even in a cut and dried case. Even if they issue the eviction, they'll likely give the tenant a few months to vacate. So think six months minimum.
All that being said, this case is ridiculous. I think Hunter's administration dropped the ball, and couldn't find it for a long time.
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Originally posted by LS1 GTO: !. Change the locks when she leaves for work or food. 2. Cut power to the room. 3. Toss her stuff out the window.
Of course she could just scream racism and equate her plight to thousands of illegals currently in NY as her basis for staying.
32 years old and living in a college dorm. 
I have no idea why it all happens. I'd guess some have moved to the local jail and can't move their own shit. Others maybe just vanish. Some may be missing as in dead. Others have no place or way to move it.