What are the New York Tenant Laws?

Dear Farmingdale Tenant: Generally, a lease will run through the stated end date, unless the lease allows for an earlier termination due to a...

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Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Your statement suggests the judge did not default the landlord when you requested an adjournment. In the ordinary...

Rental rights

Dear Flushing Tenant: You may be entitled to public assistance as a working parent without adequate income on her own to pay the rent; but your...

NYS , rent space for salon, previously salon, newly opened under myself, do I need a certificate of occupancy to open?

Dear Schenectady Tenant: If the former tenant had a certificate of occupancy posted for the former tenant's nail salon, then likely that...

How do I get my upstairs neighbors to stop making excessive noise??

Dear New York Tenant: In most similar situations, there is not much hope in converting the obnoxious neighbors into responsible human beings....

Roommate Disappears Without Paying Rent or Utilities

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Your tale does not make sense since a landlord has no right to an eviction lawsuit against one of three joint tenants to a...

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Can NYPD make subtenant give access to prime tenant to remove items from apt that subtenant is in possession .

Dear New York Tenant: The "oral cash agreement" sublease is likely a wrongful act and breach of your own lease with your landlord. Letting a...

Roommate question

Dear Rochester Tenant: Your "subtenant" in a technical manner of discussing this situation is a Roommate and you as a tenant are entitled to a...

Can landlord and staff members harass tenants?

Dear New York Tenant: No. As you described the events, each by itself is a breach of the lease, the covenant of quiet enjoyment, a breach of the...

How can I find out if the holdover case against me was dismissed with or without prejudice? I was only told it was "dismissed."

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Judges rarely dismiss any summary proceeding with prejudice; unless the petitioner did not prevail in a trial and the...

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