Dear Albany Defendant: Unlike a judgment after a trial, where the losing side has an automatic right to take an appeal, a settlement made on...

Dear New York Purchaser: You should inquire of your attorney on the purchase contract if the contract allows for the downpayment by a method...

Dear Bay Shore Property Owner: Generally, New York State does not intrude into the forms of lease made for a single-family house. Most forms for...

Do I legally have to wait until the apartment is rented again?

Dear New York Executor: I am sorry to learn of your loss. Please repost the question using Lakewood, New Jersey as the location to allow a New...

Rights of New York Holdover Tenant?

Dear New York Attorney: You know your "commercial client" did not have a landlord and tenant relation with the company that he had a services...

Family Becomes Pest

Dear Canandaigua MHP Tenant: If you do not want to involve court and law enforcement then pay her to leave. Otherwise, you are in store for...

Forgeries on DOB certificates of correction

Dear Bronx Property Owner: The tenant may become charged with commission of crimes based on filing a false statement with a government agency....

Dear Rhinebeck Tenant: Yes. Your apartment and the others carved from a one-family home are likely all not legal, you occupy an illegal multiple...

Can a landlord do a "self eviction" on a tenant for non payment of rent or do they have to wait for a court order to go through?

Dear Albany Property Owner: No. You cannot "self-evict" in New York State. Doing so subjects you to a tort lawsuit for unlawful eviction as well...

Can my landlord keep all my deposit?

Dear New York Tenant: The right to return of a tenant security does not arise until after the lease ends on its own terms and the tenant moves...