Can I break my lease?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Your landlord is subject to the law requiring installing and providing a combination smoke and CO detector. The failure to...

Dear New York Shareholder: New York State allows cooperatives to use the "objectionable" conduct clause standard in proprietary leases, to...

Can I evict my subletter?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Do you still live in the apartment, or did you move out and leave the roommate alone? If you are also in the apartment...

Do I have a right to an Itemized Deduction Statement of Security Deposit from my landlord

Dear Buffalo Tenant: Unless your lease required an itemization of deductions from the tenant security deposit, there is no statute in New York...

Can landlord charge retroactive electric charges dating 12months since they failed to tell their metering company to read meter?

Dear New York Tenant: It seems that your landlord is going to charge you. You want to know if you have to pay the electric charge even though...

The evicted tenants last day is Friday, October 31st. What if he does not move that day and does not surrender the keys.

Dear Brooklyn Landlord: I gather you do not have an attorney. Your tenants are not evicted until the NYC Marshal delivers legal possession to...

I live near the Tappan Zee bridge, which is under construction. I recently contacted the bridge authority because of the noise

Dear Irvington Home Owner: A neighbor of your living in Tarrytown asked a similar question a few months ago....

If a tenant in common owner vacates the premises how long does the other owner have to wait to occupy the formers premises.

Dear Jamaica Home Owner: Based upon your limited information you likely have no right at all to occupy your co-owner's private section of the...

How can I make sure the defendant will show up in the court

Dear Brooklyn Small Claims Plaintiff: In an NYC Small Claims proceeding, the Court, on its own, serves the process for initiating the claim. You...

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Me and my wife has two separate tenants that we subleased two rooms, one of the tenants hasn't paid any rent in 2 months now.

Dear Far Rockaway Tenant: You were allowed only one roommate by New York law so your decision to rent out two rooms to two tenant (roommates)...