Originally Posted by
bk3day
No doubt the courts are quite busy, and either party can choose to be stubborn but if keeping your credit history clean is a priority, then any person finding themselves on the wrong end of a suit can always attempt to settle thereby avoiding an entry of judgment.
If keeping the record clear was not a priority for a hedge fund manager, I certainly fail to follow his reasoning.
Not unlikely that it was, as in many of these cases, a default judgment for no show by defendant who was long out of town when the case came up and had forgotten about it.
Most tenants in NY know, or should know, how easy it is to show up and invent some story that a NYC L&T Court Judge will take at face value delaying any eviction judgment for months, if not years.