Based on conversations with a variety of stakeholders working on tenant's rights in New York City, we identified 6 critical phases during which landlords may act in a way that is harmful to their tenants: property identification, building financing, construction, building management involvement, legal proceedings, and illegal deregulation. While obviously not capturing all tactics of predatory landlords, these areas of action and the behaviors described in the process diagram below provide the foundation for an analysis of predatory landlord behavior throughout the property ownership cycle.