Dear Brooklyn Tenant: You have the right to move for your own life health and safety. In NYC an attic is not considered as habitable residential...

Don't trust my building to give me back my security deposit, the apartment is exactly the way I arrived. Should I skip last mont

Dear New York Tenant: An attorney you do not know and who has no legal relation with you cannot allay your fears of an anticipated breach of the...

Dear New York Tenant: If your apartment uses tenant controlled combined HVAC units for heat, ventilation and air conditioning, the high electric...

Rooming house had a fire. FDNY put a vacate order on the house,on the 2&3rd floor to be exact due to a violation of the C of O.

Dear New York tenant: If you are correct that the "rooming house" does not have a certificate of occupancy and the landlord did not register the...

Why is there no law that forbids landlords to rent to tenants who has hidden camera surveillance in the tenant's private room?

Dear Bronx tenant: There is a law and is not allowed for anyone to surreptitiously view and video a person in a place where that person is...

Dear New York Tenant: Your landlord has no obligation to allow you to end the lease early due to your loss of employment. As far a New York...

Is Retaliatory eviction and Harassment causes of action permitted in Civil or Supreme Court (non housing court)?

Dear New York Tenant: Unless the landlord's money claim is in excess of $25,000 the landlord would sue in Civil Court. In any event, each court...

I have a possible tenant looking at my home to rent this week. I did some background checking and i saw he has a disposed case

Dear Bayport Landlord: The court record outcome may be entirely innocent and the formal recording of the tenant giving up a tenancy and leaving...

Can I ask a potential roommate for 6 months or 1 year worth of their share of the rent upfront in a rent stabilized apartment?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Do you plan on making a written lease with the roommate and have an attorney review the lease for compliance with the law?...

Someone is trying to serve me I don't want to give his lawyer my home address What alternative is there to know about the case?

Dear New York Litigant: Do you want to resolve this dispute or defend a lawsuit? If you want to defend, the other side will learn your home...