I and my son have been living in an apartment for 3 years. After calling the health department to look at a hole the landlord

Dear Haverstraw Tenant: If the Health Department issued a vacate order that order will tend to establish the rented home is not safe as a...

Dear New Hyde Park Resident: Without looking at your birth certificate your legal name may include the *** following your name, or may mean...

Landlord has given me a lease termination, but my rental agreement allows for more notice. What can I do?

Dear Albany Tenant: You may consider consulting a local attorney. It is possible the sixty day notice period contained in the expired lease was...

Dear New York Tenant: Overtenant means the person who has the lease with the landlord for possession of the apartment. An overtenant has a legal...

Can a landlord charge interest on old lawyer fees

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: The general rule bars a landlord from seeking legal fees in a settled case since the Housing Court judge did not make a...

What type of lawyers deal with harrasment (landlord to tenant)/what can be done

Dear Bronx Tenant: If you know the assistant manager is manufacturing a case forging work requests in your name, you need your attorney to...

Dear New York Tenant: It is never good practice to mix a rent demand and a tenancy termination notice. Trying to maintain a nonpayment...

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Is it legal to sublet an apartment in NY city?

Dear Bronx Tenant: If the apartment is located within a government assisted building (with a waiting list) then likely the apartment cannot...

Dear New York Roommate: Okay. I answered the question before getting to the bottom line. Are other rooms also rented by the absentee tenant? If...

Dear New York Condo Seller: The purchaser is limited to any remedy allowed by the contract of sale. Your attorney should have prepared a rider...