Dear Schenetady Tenant: If you paid for the repairs, then you should not be paying rent. New York State has a Statewide law nearly fifty...

Dear Northport Tenant: Your landlord cannot annul, cancel, and end the lease of his own volition unless you agree to let him do it. A lease will...

Dear Rye Brook Home Owner: Hopefully the attorney you hire would tell you that there is no entitlement to legal fees when there is no written...

Dear Manhattan Tenant: If your NYPD precinct is willing to physically oust the undesirable roommate without even a notice to quit, then delay in...

Dear Carmel Commercial Tenant: I will tell you that New York State Law did not create any special tenant protection statutes for commercial...

Isn't this a Landlord and Tenant matter--not debt collection? If your landlord sued for unpaid rent that is a lawsuit known as a Summary...

The same is so for all forms of tenancy since it is the absence of a current lease that is the key. Rent Stabilized tenancy should be the exception...

Dear Bronx Tenant: You could commence a discrimination in rental housing complaint against your landlord at the NYC Commission on Human...

Dear Manhattan Tenant: There is a developing body of case law (that is, law created by judges in contested litigation and not law created by the...

Dear Bronx Tenant: Section 8 Informal Hearings are not generally done by lawyers other than by Legal Aid and Legal Services attorneys.