I need a lawyer to assist me in suing my neighbor who is attached to my building. Sewer smell is coming into my finished basemen

Dear Brooklyn Home Owner: You may find your attorney on your own by making calls to nearby lawyers. You may use the AVVO search tool to find an...

Dear Mastic Juror: You had the right to postpone the jury service date, so pushing the summons aside, is the mistake, and the excuses for...

Me and my wife have very loud over bearing upstairs neighbors and have done everything just need legal help at this point.

Dear Bronx Tenant: If the landlord served a ten day notice to quit then constant information from you to the landlord detailing the current...

Ex-wife moved to the UK and recently has been hacking my online email account using her computer to gain information.

Dear Brooklyn Spouse: First change your password. Second create a new email account and a new password. You should have locked out your wife as...

Are my previous roommates allowed to keep my possessions and force me to move out with no eviction process?

Dear Mayville Tenant: That is an illegal eviction in New York. You may claim triple damages by a lawsuit (have a lawyer make the claim for you...

Do I need a real estate or civil lawyer?

Dear Staten Island Tenant: You may be correct that on the execution of the warrant of eviction the NYCHA had a legal obligation to safe guard...

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Housing Court cannot enforce your lease as you hope to force the landlord's compliance with preventing a nuisance of noise...

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Landlord is breaking lease 4 months before the end of my lease because he sold the house. What would be fair for me to request?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: If your tenancy is not rent regulated, your lease continues by its own terms even should your landlord sell the building....

I just became a new landlord of a property in buffalo, new york. Can i increase the rent of the tenants?

Dear Tonawanda Property Owner: Introduce yourself as the new owner to all your tenant. You cannot force a rent increase mid-lease on tenants...

Can landlord be arrested if electric is cut?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Before a NYC electric utility company disconnects service to a building or a rented out because the landlord did not pay...