What can I do if my Landlord rejects my Renewal Lease in my Rent Stabalized apartment in Brookly NYC.

As long as the apartment is your primary residence your tenancy is not impacted by the permanent departure of one original tenant of record. I...

Is a landlord entitled to keep the security if they never informed you of the bank where it was deposited?

No. The landlord isn't entitled to steal the tenant security deposit by breaching the lease or by violating law. But you had ten years to be...

What do you mean by "legally"; that there is a specific law that authorizes this selfish conduct? If your lease allows you use of the driveway as...

How can I write a home improvement contract?

There are many versions of forms online. Your job is certainty the contractor presents a contract that omits no required representation and matches...

Dear Central Islip Parent: If it were not for the child you parent while living with the child's other parent, whether he rents or owns his...

Can my new landlord charge me a security deposit when I renew my lease? I paid a security deposit to the old landlord.

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Your security deposit transferred to the successor owner at the Closing, and so, you do not ever pay double-security when...

Can someone go to jail for not letting someone get their stuff

By go to jail, you must mean risk arrest, then yes. Stealing another person's property could result in an arrest. More likely when the roommate...

Complicated question but here it goes.

The judgment was entered on the basis of a failure to answer the complaint in the lawsuit by the credit card company. That manner of judgment goes...

Can my landlord keep my security for rent my roommate did not pay?

Dear Manhattan Tenant: Based only on the statement you wrote the landlord does not have a statutory right to confiscate any portion of the...

How can we keep our apartment without having it garnish?

Dear Manhattan Tenant: There is no garnishment from a Housing Court judgment that determines the tenant owed rent to the landlord. A court...