Should I request that my non payment case be reviewed by a supervising judge ?

Dear Bronx Property Owner: Allow an attorney to review your affidavits opposing the 8-10 already granted additional time to pay stays of...

Can a nonpayment case intervene with a holdover case?

Dear Bronx Property Owner: There are too many moving pieces to your problem that no online answer would help you. You already have a lawyer. Why...

We signed a lease over 3wks ago and the move in date is Dec 1st but the apartment isn’t ready. Will the landlord be in breach?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Ask the broker to show you where NY law allows a tenant a right to a money judgment for one year value if rent if the...

I lived in an illegal apartment for 2 years and paid over $40K in that timeframe. Do I have any rights here?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: The current state of the law in Brooklyn is a tenant has no legal remedy to clawback past rent money paid to a landlord...

Can I add my significant other to my lease H is my significant other and we are not married but have been together for 27 years?

Dear Bronx Tenant: New York law requires a landlord add a spouse of a tenant to a lease if requested by the tenant if the apartment is subject...

The Senate Bill has passed the Senate but not the Assembly and so is not "law" in...

Long Island, NY Live In in-law apartment in a single family home. Is my land lord allowed to prevent overnight guest or roomate?

Dear Lynbrook Tenant: I may have answered your girlfriend's flipside of this question yesterday. I did so, if your girlfriend lives in Florida...

Hello. I am familiar with your series of messages about the holdover proceeding commenced against you by your mother. I may have lost track but at...

If you give your roommates 30 day notice and she refuse to Move what will the judge decide or how many days will the judge give?

Dear Manhattan Tenant: If a "guess" is good enough for you, a Roommate could drag out a holdover proceeding for months. Basically, until you are...

Dear Brooklyn Parent: How much information do you have? What court? What type of case? Why did your son leave before seeing the Judge? Why did...