How can a squatter stay in public housing

Dear New York Tenant: If you lived in the apartment with your sister, you are not a squatter. If your sister did not list you as a member of her...

Should I write to property manager and make payments to show that I want to stay?

Dear New York Tenant: How long has it been since you last paid rent? Has the landlord started a court case? I would not recommend sending...

Dear New York Tenant: It may lead to an arrest for an unlawful eviction if you change the locks in the apartment door. If you do so, he will get...

Two months behind in rent. Should try to make a payments arrangement to avoid eviction. Should I write them?

Dear New York Tenant: Went to collections? What did you mean? An actual letter from a debt collector or a written rent demand from the landlord?...

Dear Norwich Tenant: I hesitate to say the property manager does not have a right to make monthly inspections without looking at the lease, but...

Landlord entered my space without permission

Dear New York Commercial Tenant: Generally, a commercial tenant has few remedies to counter a trespass by the landlord, and the exercise of...

Can a landlord who didn't serve a notice of eviction, but instead an informal letter, turn off the power to my apartment?

Dear Camp Vincent Tenant: Aside from the obvious why you believe that even though you were expected to move out by the end of September the...

I am about to be evicted

Dear New York Tenant: So you have a brush with the dark side of subleasing an apartment through the end of the original lease period. A tenant...

Tax treatment on buyout

Dear New York Tenant: No one should provide online advice on the matter you inquired. You do need an attorney, and you do need a consultation...

What can I legally do in this situation, if possible?

Dear Far Rockaway Tenant: I gather that the tenancy is not Rent Stabilized, since you would long ago had filed for a reduction in rent due to...