Your question raises a number of important issues. If the parents add the children to the deed with them as owners, each of the children would acquire a present interest in the property. Assuming two parents and four children on the deed, each would be presumed to own 1/6 of the property unless... View More

When you sign a lease you are entering into a contract. The landlord is promising to rent you space for a specific use and a specific period of time. Likewise, the tenant is promising to rent a particular space for a specific use for a specified period of time. Unless there is a clause in the... View More

Most gifts fall well under the amount that begins to have implications for gift tax purposes. However, depending on the value of the land, your mother may need to file some paperwork documenting the value of the gift. Her accountant should be able to assist her.

When you rent a room, you effectively become a "landlord" and are required to take the same steps as any landlord to evict a "tenant". Therefore, it is not a matter of when you can throw out someone's belongings after service of a 30 Day Notice but when you can commence a... View More

If you need to go the route of commencing legal action to remove your S.O. from your home, the process can take longer than you may find tolerable. Depending on whether the occupant is a tenant or a licensee, the required predicate notices can be as short as 10 days to as long as 90 days. Only... View More

In New York, an individual owner is not required to have a lawyer prepare or serve predicate notices for a landlord/tenant case but the owner cannot personally serve these documents. Although it may seem like a cost saver for an owner to skip a lawyer for preparation of a predicate notice, it... View More

The landlord appears to have no basis to ask you how long your new housemate may be staying with you. In NYC you are entitled to have a roommate even without your landlord's permission. Although the landlord may have inquired because of the Covid-19 crisis, it is perhaps even more likely you... View More

Generally, real estate contracts provide an option for you to cancel the contract in those circumstances.

This is a serious and complex situation. Instead of posting here, you should promptly consult with and retain counsel to protect your rights to the property.

Generally, a landlord is permitted to install video/camera to monitor common areas of property as long as they do not look directly into the interior of a tenant's apartment.

Yes, RE Taxes can and do regularly increase. Some buildings have temporarily reduced RE Taxes... for example because of a 421a tax abatement. Consider retaining an attorney to assist you with in the questions you have.

If the tenant just signed a lease with you recently, you can still go after her for unpaid rent until you rerent the apartment after she leaves. However, since there is a moratorium on most evictions and the Housing Court has a substantial backlog of cases, she might be doing you a favor by moving... View More

Not necessarily. If you are being sued for "partition", a filing for an accounting is also often sought. That does not automatically mean you are entitled to contribution towards expenses... especially if you benefitted from exclusive use and control of property during that time. In... View More

Generally, real estate contracts are not binding until reduced to a writing sold by both parties. Therefore, if you made a verbal offer, this alone would not usually bind you and, in that case, you may simply be able to withrdraw your offer. Although you can make a lower offer, the seller or may... View More

Most leases provide a provision that absolve the landlord of liability for failure to deliver possession at the specified time. Read your lease carefully for the remedies available to you.

If your father is agreeable to delaying the receipt of the proceeds from a sale of the property, he could sell the property to you now and take back a baloon mortgage that becomes due at the time you intend to be ready to move. This way the purchase price and sale are confirmed and you become the... View More

You can sue for almost anything because claims are not vetted before filed. However, filing a case is not the same thing as winning and winning is not the same thing as recovering. The answer to your questions depends upon the exact terms of the settlement with your landlord releasing you from... View More

I am loath to reach a harsh judgment without hearing all sides to a story; therefore, I don't believe it is approriate to guess as to reasons for the delay in the situation you described. Instead, I would encourage you to consider whether you still have confidence in the attorney you intially... View More

You can make the payments yourself but quit claim deed wouldn't entitle you to force someone else to make the payments

Under certain circumstances, a tenant may claim to have been constructively evicted because of conditions that constitute violations that impact the habitability of an apartment.