Nycha roommate

Dear Brooklyn NYCHA Tenant: You are correct. Your family is in risk of eviction from the housing due to the roommate living in your apartment if...

Dear New York Tenant: If he does not move out on his own, you will become trapped in one of the more horrible experience a tenant may suffer,...

Dear New York Litigant: Are you certain the attorney submitted an affidavit? If so, then the attorney cannot witness his own signature. But if...

City inspector going into a basement without consent. 4 family home.

Dear Brooklyn Property Owner: The HPD inspector could issue a violation for not gaining access to the boiler room in the basement while...

I want to know if this is legal in NY state

Dear Port Jervis Friend of a Tenant: A lawyer is not authorized on his or her own to start any lawsuit without permission from the client. In...

Can I restrain my in-laws from coming into my apartment without my permission?

Dear New York Tenant: Guess what? You have no control over your wife's choice to have her family visit her in your home and her home when ever...

Now what are my rights, can the landlord make a $200 increase after only two (2) years since the last increase?

Dear Westbury Tenant: Without the State imposing a form of rent regulation into a landlord and tenant relation, New York State allows landlords...

Can she do this, what options do i have

Dear Ithaca Tenant: New York law requires delivery of the signed lease (or copy) to the tenant along with the keys to evidence the transfer of...

How can you go about filing a lawsuit while staying in another country for several years?

Dear New York Dental Plaintiff: You will need an attorney. So before going out of country consult a personal injury/dental malpractice attorney....

Can I appeal the judgment of possession

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: If the judgment is by default, there is no right to appeal. You must first make a motion by Order to Show Cause to vacate...