Q: for several years now, my husband's sister has been staying in our home in Puerto rico while we stay in our home in NY.
She has been staying there rent free and without a lease or contract. She asked us to let her stay at our home since she needed to get back on her feet and had children. She said she would get her own place as soon as she got a job. Her children are grown now. Its several years later. She has had several jobs and we have asked her repeatedly to start looking for a place so we can start using the house again. The last time we gave her a time frame in which we wanted her to move but she still did nothing. she is not paying rent. She is not helping us maintain the house either so it has fallen into disrepair and need to stay there to fix it. What can we do. We would like her to move as soon as possible
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A: Start proceedings to evict her, a local landlord and tenant attorney can help.
A: This is a matter of Puerto Rican law. You need a landlord/tenant lawyer there. New York has nothing to do with it.
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