NYC landlord on life support sued by lender over COVID loans dies: lawyer

The family members of a Bronx landlord, who was clinging to everyday living when he was strike with two lawsuits in excess of a financial loan he was pressured to choose out in the course of the pandemic-associated rent moratorium, is now contemplating suing the loan company just after he died in excess of the weekend, the family’s law firm reported.

Jeffrey Schenider, 62, was on life guidance right after contracting COVID-19 when Premier Money Funding LLC filed the suits to claw again $58,000 on a $23,000 high-desire bank loan he took out in Could by means of his company Remie Realty Corp. — immediately after lots of of his having difficulties tenants stopped paying lease, in accordance to court papers filed by Schneider’s wife very last month.

Now, the spouse and children is thinking of suing the financial institution about its allegedly shady personal loan settlement with Remie and Schnieder, who died Sunday after currently being on a ventilator and lifetime guidance because Nov. 29.

“The very last times [the Schneider family members] were with each other they have been considering about how could they could get out of this fiscal circumstance, how could they get out of this personal debt, how could they cease these vultures from circling,” the family’s attorney Ashlee Colonna Cohen informed The Submit.

“They ought to have been in a position to invest those people previous times conversing about how considerably they beloved every other and how much they intended to each and every other and becoming in a position to enable go in peace.”

Schneider sought the lifeline when the pandemic point out eviction moratorium compelled his firm into dire monetary straits, according to the court docket papers filed by his spouse, Cindy.

The landlord of the hire-controlled Bronx condominium constructing managed to spend back $25,000 of the about $35,000 full he owed on the higher-interest financial loan just before coronavirus landed the thoroughly vaccinated gentleman in the healthcare facility on Nov. 7 — where he remained until finally he died, leaving him not able to operate his company, the submitting explained.

Leading Capital then filed the two fits from Schneider and didn’t back down even when Cindy informed them he was on death’s door and presented to repay the $11,000 remaining stability on the personal loan, she alleged in the papers filed last thirty day period.

“We are reserving every single single one particular of our legal rights that we have and strategy on asserting those people legal rights in court against this enterprise. We are not going to choose this lying down,” Colonna Cohen reported.

“Remie Realty ceased to exist with Jeffrey’s passing and underneath the settlement, they shouldn’t be permitted to enforce this any longer,” she ongoing.

“We currently know the legality of the collections course of action is questionable. I would go so much as to say that that they have been unlawful.”

“There are massive, glaringly clear problems amongst what the financial institution has advertised the products to be and how they represented the product to Jeffrey and what it truly was,” Colonna Cohen explained of the mortgage arrangement.

Leading Capital and a attorney for the organization did not promptly return requests for remark.