What can I do if sublessor tries to evict me because of just she doesnt feel like it will work out?

Dear Manhattan Tenant: Then the tenant would need a lawyer with an inventive mind to figure out a method to default the subtenant, when the rent...

I have an apartment in my home what do I need to do to make it legal or does it have to be legal?

You require an expert in the local codes and ability to inspect the current condition. For all you know the unit conforms to code, but for required...

Your attorney should suggest you not consummate the purchase of the shares without the cooperative management (and perhaps HPD if a City-Supervised...

Can the tenant still ask for extension to their eviction even after a Marshal has been hired?

Dear Manhattan Property Owner: An Order to Show Cause is nothing more than an attempt by one side of a lawsuit, without need to make the other...

If I am being served with a subpoena hand delivered, does it have to be handed to only me?

Dear Staten Island Tenant Usually a subpoena requires personal in-hand service since there is need to deliver a check for the $15 witness fee.

Lease expiration and notify landlord to vacate?

That depends on your own lease. No law says you need to do so. But your lease would dictate if advance notice was required. Usually there is need...

If landlord's attorney files a voluntary discontinuance how can you get NYC evictions expunged?

There are lawyers who make a living challenging the Court's complicity in creation of the so-called Tenant Blacklists. This plague has spread...

Can a person living in the Bronx .without a Lease for 18 years be Evicted?

Dear Friend of a Bronx Tenant It is 18 years late to learn a tenant without a lease has only the right to pay rent as long as the landlord...

As a roommate to a coop shareholder, is it legal for me to be paying most of the maintenance?

Dear Manhattan Tenant You set the market rate for the rent. You could pay triple the maintenance as your rent if you consider that fair. There...

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