Manhattan's luckiest renter has paid just ONE DOLLAR a month since 2006 for his two bedroom apartment thanks to bureaucratic oversight



Thanks to a little error on the part of the city of New York and a lot of blind luck, a Manhattan man pays the bargain basement rate of $1 per month in rent for his apartment.



David Lieberman moved into the pad on Morningside Boulevard, an in demand section of up-and-coming Harlem, in 2006 and paid $2,100, market rate at the time for the two bedroom apartment.



But since learning that the city lowered the rent to a buck for previous tenants while they waited for damages from a fire to be repaired, Lieberman has laid claim to the cheapest rent in the Big Apple.

Behold: New York City's luckiest man lives in this seven floor Harlem building, where he pays a dollar per month thanks to an apparent years-long bureaucratic oversight

Though he probably didn't feel that way when former tenants Sonya McNair Tonge and Deryck Tonge sued him, along with landlord Baruch Singer, in order to get back into the rental.



Unluckiest landlord: Baruch Singer, known for buying distressed properties, owns the place and is likely one angry property owner. He's trying to get the rent raised to $2,100 and says he's lost $176,400

The Tonges paid $436 per month for the rent stabilized apartment until fire damages forced them out and the city allowed them to pay just $1 a month as a sort of placeholder.



But the repairs were completed in 2005 and the couple was allegedly never invited to move back in.

Instead, the apartment was listed at market price via Craigslist and that's how 30-year-old Liberman wound up there.



But when he caught wind of the legal price of the place thanks to the lawsuit, he also sued the landlord claiming he was duped into believing the place was no longer rent stabilized.



The owner of 98 Morningside lost and Lieberman was awarded $104,000 and his rent was lowered to his current rate of one dollar.



Somewhere along the way, the Tonges' suit was dismissed and despite attempts by Singer to have the temporary dollar rent lifted, the unbelieveable deal remains.

