Dear Manhattan Victim of a Hex: New York courts do not recognize casting an evil spell as a tort.

Dear Cairo Lumberjack: A text may be a written contract in the circumstances the text meets the standards required for a writing. You'll need to...

Tenant make fake lease and my siign is on the lease what I never sign on fake lease?is it crime

Dear Manhattan Property Owner: You better hire a lawyer since your tenant has bamboozled you and pulled the wool over the judge's eyes with the...

MY landlord is not providing heat at all from October 1 until now what can i do ?

Dear Manhattan Tenant: Are you alone in this building without heat or are there other tenants in the same dire straits as you? New York City...

How can a landlord raise your rent 8% in 2 years is this legal

Dear Pearl River Tenant: NY State provides for restrictions on rate of rent increase from one lease to the next for rent regulated dwellings,...

Do I have a right to know who has complained about me?

Dear Newburgh Tenant: Often, the trial is the first time a tenant sued by a landlord learns who among her neighbors is the instigating...

Dear Riverhead Property Owner: Generally, the same rules affecting residential tenant and landlord relations, apply to business/commercial...

My rights with breaking a lease?

Dear Manhattan Business Tenant: If the written one month to month lease required only thirty days advance notice to end the tenancy and vacate,...

Letter of termination for tenant and process

Dear Bronx Tenant: You could represent yourself, but not represent your mother. If an attorney looks at the tenancy termination notice or notice...

Can a landlord collect late payment fees after my lease is up?

Dear Far Rockaway Tenant: A landlord may add late fees as "additional rent" to current base rent, if the lease allows for "late fees." Signing a...