Dear Brooklyn Tenant:

Why are you responsible for a replacement when State Law leaves replacing a departed tenant with the remaining co-tenants?

All you would need is a written agreement with the landlord and your co-tenants to remove you from the lease agreement and allow the... View More

Dear Batavia Home Owner:

You brought them in, so they had permission. A tenancy cannot diminish into a squatter. If they have been there for more than one year and you claim you rented to them, the preliminary written notice to your tenants is the notification required by New York Real... View More

Dear Manhattan Landlord

How is this possible? No tenant is allowed to inhabit a boiler room and no habitable dwelling may surround a boiler room. Before you add a video camera into this likely illegal housing situation contact an architect who may determine the legality of the apartment.... View More

Dear Newburgh Property Owner:

You would need your own attorney to approve the acceptance of three months' rent paid in advance. New York State law says that you cannot do so even if you are not the party to bring up the idea.

Dear Manhattan Tenant

The controlling statute does not provide any guidance on the allowance of a deduction of the expenses incurred by delivering the security deposit by international wire transfers and not by check within 14 days. It surely would have been a better solution to have a... View More

Dear Brooklyn Tenant

New York State housing law has not built in to unwritten month to month leases the implied covenant of rent proration. This means that without a written agreement to prorated rent that there is no entitlement to do so.

Your last month rent is due on the 1st day... View More

Ordinarily a dwelling is required to be set up in New York State with operating smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Withholding rent without your own attorney advice is a risky strategy. But calling local code enforcement and arranging for an inspection should provide the notice of housing code... View More

Dear Manhattan Tenant

While the statute only deals with the tenant right to a 'free' adjournment to secure counsel as a Petitioner you will require the consent of the Roommate and the Roommate's attorney and the Judge as well.

Beware if you securean adjournment this... View More

Dear Elmira Tenant:

Rent is a debt to pay to a landlord only when a rental agreement exists. A rental agreement may run month to month. Still, no landlord will find a judge ready to believe that both tenants in the two-family house simultaneously continued to live in the building without... View More

Without a will, all the children living when their mother passed away became the heirs of the real property. Any one of the adult children had the power to become the legal administrator of their mother's estate and transfer the deed from the decedent's estate to each sibling, as well as... View More

Dear Rochester Tenant:

In New York State housing law, retaliatory eviction is among the recognized statutory defenses a tenant has available when the landlord terminates the rental agreement, and the tenant contests the end of the tenancy as a defense of the landlord's holdover... View More

It seems your lawyer did not negotiate very well. One could say that as long as the Seller believed you would pay more than 230,000, they returned to your broker with the nonsense that someone made a better offer. They could have taken the better offer. For all you know, you were bidding against... View More

New York State housing law does not have any specific protection for disabled residents in relation to eviction.

But tenants with a 16 year long tenancy without a lease must first be served with a written notification that the landlord is not continuing the tenancy at least ninety days... View More

Dear Pen Yan Tenant:

Likely, the turnover of the keys ended the lease obligations. Did your landlord return the tenant security deposit to you within fourteen days of the turnover of the keys? If not, and if the landlord did not provide you a written itemization of legal deductions in the... View More

Dear Albany Veteran:

No legal process exists for any landlord to charge a tenant an increase in rent during a lease term. That should be so for you as well.

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/vash

No. The Bill is stuck in an assigned committee. It has not been passed and it is not law.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S1403/amendment/A#:~:text=2023%2DS1403%20%2D%20Summary,properties%20during%20the%20winter%20months.

You must also be a Rent Stabilized tenant. A NYC landlord to a Rent Stabilized tenant is barred by law from refusing to renew a lease even when the tenant owes rent and even if the landlord has a nonpayment eviction case in Housing Court.

Yes. There is a statute. It is five days old today. It became effective February 15, 2024:

* § 236-a. Termination of lease of a deceased tenant. Notwithstanding

any contrary provision contained in any lease hereafter made or renewed

which affects premises demised for... View More

Dear Ulster County Tenant

Partial payment even in NYC Housing Court ahead of the first Court day does not annul the landlord nonprofit proceeding so it's not likely that will happen in your Court.

Landlord and Tenant practices vary widely across the State even within the... View More

Dear Tenant

Something seems wrong with the underlying facts. The J51 should have expired. https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/services-and-information/tax-incentives-j-51.page#:~:text=Benefits%20granted%20include%3A,get%20the%2014%2Dyear%20exemption

Consider consulting an attorney.