What is Rent-stabber?
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Pejorative term for someone who leases a rent-stabilized unit in a building which has converted to cooperative or condominium ownership and who expresses satisfaction about the financial losses incurred by those who purchased the other units. Usually "bitter rent stabber."
There are many expressions of schadenfreude by bitter rent-stabbers in the comment sections of the real estate blogs following the mortgage meltdown.
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