A landlord must bear the cost of producing surveillance footage allegedly showing that an elderly and indigent tenant is not using her rent-stabilized apartment as her primary residence, a Housing Court judge has ruled.
According to court papers, attorneys for Rosario Lejano’s landlord wrote in a reply for a motion to conduct limited discovery that she would need to pay a private investigator $1,250 to obtain DVDs containing the surveillance footage or pay the private investigator $150 per hour to watch the footage on the investigator’s computer.
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