Dear New York Tenant: There is no reason for your wife to give up her tenancy status unless she is relocating to a new Rent Stabilized apartment...

What can I do about a 25% rent increase as a non-rent stabilized tenant?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: If you are correct the apartment is not rent stabilized then the only hope you have to avoid the offered lease is...

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Who do I the owner evict - tenant or illegal sublease tenant

Dear Flushing Property Owner: You must follow the "default" provisions of the lease. Likely, the lease requires a Notice to Cure and a following...

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Dear Jamaica Tenant: At a Traverse Hearing the burden of proof is on the party offering the affidavit of service. Most tenants do not properly...

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Is non-remediation of bedbugs and lack of other needed repairs cause for a suit for constructive eviction?

Dear Relative of a Brooklyn Tenant: You do not know vital information for a proper response. Your relative's path to legal remedies are...

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Can a tenant request a rent abatement due to the landlord's lack of bedbug treatment?

Dear relative of a Brooklyn Tenant: An "abatement" is a judicial (made in court) determination that a tenant established facts supporting a...

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When can a tenant spend rent money on an urgent situation - i.e. bedbugs?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Bed bug eradication is a landlord; not a tenant obligation. Call 311 to report the bed bug condition and start an HP...

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Dear New York Tenant: Only your own attorney should advise you to wait or commence a lawsuit. If you plan to move out at the end of the lease...

Wiil i be evicted no matter what.

Dear New York Tenant: Why would you believe you are going to be evicted after receiving answers to your earlier question today? If you look...

What can i do because this is stressing me out and i am 32 weeks pregnant?

Dear Bronx Tenant: Your cancelled checks or receipts for rent you paid in cash is proper proof of the existence of your tenancy as well as...