What happens to the stuff in our apartment if ruined due to landlord's negligence? No roof, landlord not repairing.

Dear New York Tenant: No. There is no law that says the landlord has to pay you for the replacement value of your lost possessions, reimburse...

How do we protect ourselves if our landlord resists repairing our building and allows it to be condemned? We are Rent Stabilized

Dear New York Tenant: If you are a Rent Stabilized tenant and your building has a vacate order you should have secured an order reducing youur...

Dear New York Tenant: If you are a Rent Stabilized tenant and your building has a vacate order you should have secured an order reducing youur...

How do I get out of a month to month lease when I'm on the lease with another person who is not related to me?

Dear Marllboro Tenant: Is the lease with the landlord written or oral? In any case, your lease cannot act to repeal your right as a tenant in...

How is it that the majority of lawyers avoid this question...I have done research and found that once an oath of office is taken

Dear Sovereign Citizen from Syracuse: The "laws" of the United States apply to you whether you are a citizen or not (you are not a diplomat),...

If you are being evicted can you get a new court date so you can take a trip?

Dear Brooklyn Petitioner: You could act in relation to your ex as an attorney would and make a written agreement to adjourn the case from the...

Which of these lease options would cause the least problems?

Dear New York Property Owner: Oh boy. You and your tenant were better off with a one month lease and then going month to month. With a month to...

Options for civil lawsuit against me; no evidence. I am in CA they are in NY, I cannot travel and I have a police report.

Dear California Defendant: You need a NY attorney to answer the complaint. You likely need FBI to deal with aa forgery interstate and filing a...

I want to know if I can file suit against a broker who used my identity in a lease I never signed for.

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: If the forged lease is for another person's apartment and you do not live in the apartment at least you have no liability...

If you have plane tickets already paid for can that sway the judge to have a new court date?

Dear New York Respondent: Based on the question I gather your mother commenced a holdover proceeding and so the initial court date was chosen by...