Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Legally, you are a tenant in an apartment carved out from a legal single family house. Had you rented the entire legal...

Hello I need to file a motion for summary judgement to remove myself off of a slip and fall case. I can afford $750 or less.

Dear Brooklyn Property Owner: The plaintiff should discontinue the claims and case against you. You should not need to make a motion when as you...

How can i start an eviction against my daughter in law in new york city?

Dear Brooklyn Property Owner: If your daughter-in-law is a tenant, and the lease expired or there is no lease, and she alone and not your son...

Renters Rights in New York State? Unique situation

Dear Syracuse Tenant: The circumstances are not unique. Your mother-in-law is a criminal. You could turn her in. Aside from the criminal...

Non paying tenant with a one year lease about to expire in 3 months. - New York City

Dear Staten Island Property Owner: Your tenant may very well have calculated that you have received the last rent ever for the apartment before...

What can I do if my Landlord has filled a false petition against me?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: If no one asked you for the rent before starting the lawsuit, that suggests the underlying legal ground for the lawsuit...

Our landlord also resides in our apartment in NYC; is it legal for him to install video cameras in the kitchen and hallways?

Dear Brooklyn Roommate: There is no reason to argue with your logic. You may very well have figured out the reason behind the additional...

Our landlord also lives in our apt.; can he legally install video cameras in common rooms & hallways inside?

Dear Brooklyn Roommates: The tenant probably shopped around recently for an attorney to process a formal eviction proceeding and calculated the...

As a landlord in Albany New York do I have to wait 30 days to send tenant over to collection agency on late rent?

Dear Albany Property Owner: I will attempt to change the question category to Landlord and Tenant from Unspecified. You need wait only one...

How can this problem be rectified?

Dear Parent Of a Bloomingburg Tenant: Your daughter may claim a constructive eviction based on the landlord's wrongful act in refusing to...