Q: Can a landlord keep charging a tenant security deposit every year or so??
My landlord wants me to pay security deposit and we've been in the same apartment for 50 yrs and no rent due
A:
Dear Brooklyn Tenant
Your landlord cannot hold more than one month's equivalent of the current monthly rent in a security deposit. After 50 years of tenancy your landord is not entitled to fifty month's worth of rent for the security deposit, only one. Hire an attorney to recover the extra 49 months of security your landord illegally collected from you.
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