Do I need to pay rent of the building turned off gas?

Dear New York Tenant: Look at your problem from the point of view should you pay rent and continue to live in this apartment when the landlord...

Application For Variance

Dear Staten Island Property Seller: Likely, the contract did not provide any right to cancel and so, the buyer's attorney will reject your...

What should my next actions be?

Dear Watertown Tenant: If I understand your problem, you intended to have a friend sign a lease with you as tenants, so you each would have full...

Can an aggrieved respondent of a holdover case take an appeal without serving a judgment with notice of entry on the petitioner?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: NYC Housing Court judgments are self entering. The form for the Notice of Appeal, posted by the Court for self-represented...

Dear Endicott New York Home Owner: Generally, a home owner does not need to do anything about the asbestos siding. See:...

What are our defenses besides asking for more time?

Dear Jamaica Tenant: A "quickie" answer will not help you. To start, if no tenant has a lease, each tenant in each apartment must have received...

Can a landlord evict a commercial tenant if current on rent?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Based on your information, if you are a commercial tenant, with an expired lease, and did not use the space as a...

Do I have a case against my landlord?

Dear Fairport Tenant: How did you discover the Town provided you sixty days to move out? That is the key to providing whether there is a fraud...

My building has been illegally converted into a 4 family home from a 2 family home.

Dear Astoria Tenant: The additional residential units converted the legal two family dwelling into an illegal three (or more) unit building....

Dear Forest Hills Coop Owner: There is no remedy in Housing Court. Supreme Court litigation is expensive. The lawsuit is known as an Article 78...