How do I get a Copy of my lease and a paper filled out.

Dear Middletown Tenant: Send a letter demanding your copy of the lease and other documents. Use a USPS tracking product. Send a duplicate of the...

What do I do if my bathroom ceiling fell on my head and my landlord knew about the leaks in the cracks already?

Dear Bronx Tenant: Since you have no injury, you want proper repairs made. Go to Bronx Housing Court. Start an HP Proceeding....

How do deportation proceedings work in NYC?

Read this article. https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/graphics/deportation-explainer/ If you are detained you want a lawyer. Look...

My dad left me coop, I need to put it in my name but there is a dispute about ownership?

Dear Brooklyn Heir: You need a lawyer and your father's Will. The Will provides for the distribution of the personal property. That would...

Is tenant entitled to a security deposit?

Dear Manhattan Property Owner: If you do not return the tenant security deposit, and if the tenant sues, you would counterclaim for the expense...

My lease ends either Dec 24 (I paid extra to move in early) or Dec 31. It is now Dec 4 and I have not received a renewal letter.

Dear Buffalo Tenant: Your concern about the expiring lease is legitimate--since NY housing law--other than for certain rent regulated...

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Out of context the question has no useful answer. A landlord may seek a court order by means of written notice of motion...

How to evict a tenant in an illegal building?

Dear Manhattan Tenant: You pose a number of questions. If the apartment is capable of legalization, and able to secure a certificate of...

What is succession rights? Should my significant other also be paying the rent with his checks sometime to have a record of paym

Dear Bronx Tenant: Your landlord is not going to lay out to you the strategy and legal procedure to establish a succession tenancy for a...

Is anything in a backpack design proprietary?

Dear New City Backpack Inventor: See if the failed backpacks here do what you hope to invent. The company scammed...