Who pays legal fees in NY for nonpayment petition?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Generally, no party has a claim for legal fees against the other party unless a fee claim exists by statute or contract....

Illegal apartment in NYC under which condition can be used to collect rent?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: You ask a provocative question, considering that in New York and Bronx Counties, that issue is irrelevant. There is a...

Dear Canandaigua Carpentry Contractor: Your description of the arrangement with the home owner does not seem to follow the standard terms of a...

Dear Saratoga Springs Tenant: You are caught as are many tenants in this State with the Legislative decision to allow certain landlords free...

Does a New York City co-op need to inform shareholders when a shareholder is harboring a fugitive?

Dear New York Shareholder: I changed the topic to Landlord & Tenant. Long before the neighbor harbored a fugitive the Board had ample chance to...

Can I get my deposit back?

Dear New York Tenant: Apt212 has been able to operate as a so-called rental marketplace for short term rentals of furnished apartments in the...

Dear New York Tenant: If your tenancy is not Rent Stabilized no law would compel your landlord to add your niece to the lease, although paying a...

What are my rights to the property left by my ex?

Dear Syracuse Tenant: New York State's unusual approach to abandoned property creates traps of accidental liability to taking a mere common...

Can my roommate over charge me?

Dear New York Tenant: If the tenancy is Rent Stabilized paying the rent at the rate of $180 every two weeks made the annual rent $4680, or the...

How can I evict a tenant from a commercial building

Dear Greenport Executor: You should have an attorney, but you do not say so. If the tenant's agreement was not written in the form of a lease,...