You do not have a right to succeed to the lease. You should be negotiating with the landlord or looking to live elsewhere.

Do I owe money to my commercial landlord for back charges from rent increases he forgot to make?

Yes, it is legal for the landlord to charge you for that. There are certain exceptions to this, but you would really need a lawyer to analyze them...

A good conservative answer is "as long as you own the building," but if that is a real hardship for you, you can get rid of things like...

I would like to inherit my dead father's rent stabilized apartment. He died in May and I have been living with him for a year.

There are some few exceptions to the two year rule to inherit the apartment. If you don't qualify for them, then no, you don't get to inherit the...

Can a landlord charge a tenant extra rent if notice to not renew was given less than 30 days before end of lease?

You should certainly examine the lease. However, please note that if you have notified the landlord that you are leaving and then you don't leave,...

Information Subpeona and questionnaire as well as restraining notice for rent against landlord.

Sending a Sheriff to the house was an empty threat. However, there can be messiness. You should have an attorney handling this for you as you are...

These are adequately separate issues that you should be able to sue on each separately, but some judges may disagree.

Your record is already messed up. The record of the "eviction" starts when the party evicting you files a petition in the local court to have you...

What remedy does a landlord have when commercial tenant is being a nuisance?

The landlord probably has a ton of remedies, some of them in State Supreme Court, some of them in the Civil Court under the lease. The lease is...

When purchasing a single family home for my residence and the home has a tenant, do I have the right to move in at closing?

You have to become a landlord and go thru that whole deal. It will take several months, unless there is a lease that isn't expired, in which case,...