Worst evictors in Binghamton according to court records
Worst Evictors List
Protect yourself against landlords with a proven track record
- Average number of evictions filed per year since COVID moratorium expired (1/15/22) and total from 1/15/22 to 9/30/2024
- These twelve landlords are responsible for 26% (683 of 2661) of all eviction filings in Binghamton post-COVID (1/15/22-9/30/24)
Interactive Map of the Worst Evictor Properties
Evictions filed in Binghamton City Court in 2024
%
of evictions filed result in displacement
Increases in eviction filings are directly associated with increases in households who access shelter
Top 12 Worst Evictors in Binghamton
Ritter (Douglas & Steven/Steven J)
75/year – 205 total
Binghamton Housing Authority (Community Potential Inc, Binghamton Northside Housing, Bing Northside Dev Group, Bing Northside Dev Grp LLC, Bing Northside Dvlpmnt Gr, etc.) 34/year – 94 total
602 Partners LLC
23/year – 63 total
Robert J. Pornbeck
(42 Tompkins Management LLC, 229-235 Chenango St. LLC) 21/year – 58 total
Greater Opportunities (GrtrOppBroome&ChenangoInc) 18/year – 49 total
Sall Associates
(Line Realty LLC ℅ Sall Associates, Upstate Urban Properties ℅ Sall Associates, 30 Stuyvesant LLC ℅ Sall Associates) 16/year – 45 total
Tri City Apartments
(David H Cohen) 15/year – 41 total
VE Binghamton
(formerly Town & Country Apartments) 13/year – 35 total
Team Rein
(Douglas G. Rein) 9/year – 25 total
AMICUS NY II LLC
8/year – 22 total
Tompkins Place LLC
(Bing Wei) 8/year – 23 total
296 Main St. Partners LLC
(272 Main St. LLC) 8/year – 23 total
In 2019, the NYS Housing Stability & Tenant Protections Act significantly increased the rights and protections of renter households against landlord profiteering and exploitation. While these expansions were hard fought, tenants throughout the City of Binghamton continue to face discrimination – source of income, disability status, eviction history, household composition, etc. – when attempting to rent available units. Illegal practices are also pervasive in the form of “self-help evictions” as local landlords do everything they can to avoid submitting to legal court proceedings in order to carry out more immediate displacement.
Housing justice advocates in Binghamton have identified low enforcement rates of RPAPL §768, related to unlawful eviction attempts, by Binghamton Police and Broome County Sheriff Departments. Similarly, enforcement of the expanded protections within Landlord Tenant proceedings at City Court is often inconsistent. Local tenants cannot simply rely on the implementation of the 2019 changes when seeking to obtain or maintain rental housing.
While New York State offers a Statewide Landlord Tenant Eviction Dashboard, the accessible data only represents aggregate eviction filings and offers neither information that can be used to assist tenants in making informed decisions regarding their residential opportunities nor resources should they be subject to potential violations by their landlord.
This dashboard is intended to fill that gap and will be updated + expanded annually to reflect landlords within the City who most frequently sue their tenants for eviction – a practice that, when serial or chronic, is commonly associated with poor property conditions and tenants rights violations. The 12 landlords currently represented on this dashboard are responsible for 26% of all eviction filings in Binghamton post-COVID (1/15/2022-9/30/2024) and own an estimated 394 properties throughout Broome County.
This project was completed in collaboration with the Fair Housing Advisory Board of Broome County, Binghamton Tenants Union, and the Digital and Data Studies program at Binghamton University.
The source code for this project can be found here. All eviction filing and Code violation data used in this project was obtained via Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests, with an identified date range between January 15, 2022 and September 30, 2024. Affiliated properties were found by searching here.