Dear Jamestown Tenant: Right now, without a lease, New York law, considers that your tenancy runs month to month. That legal status presents...

How can I recover my personal property from another person's home?

Dear New York Tenant: If you sublet the apartment as furnished, then until you are able to end the subtenant's right to possession, you may not...

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Can MY past due rent be charged to the new tenant?

Dear Oneonta Mobile Home Owner: I believe I answered a similar question in the past few days. The Manufactured Home Park Owner does not need to...

Conditions under which a judge will issue warrant to zoning building inspector to enter private property.

Dear Rosedale Home Owner: If you have an illegal dwelling in your building, the inspectors will get in, at some point, and the risk to the...

Dear Jamaica Home Owner: You are skating on thin ice if you have an illegal basement apartment and block an inspection. You need an attorney....

My sister and I own my parents property. We are both listed on the deed. She lives in the house for the past three years.

Dear Hudson Falls Home Owner: An ownership interest in real property cannot simply be erased. You did not mention how your sister is "trying to...

Is a lease valid if the landlord has not actually closed on the property?

Dear possible Hicksville Tenant: Self dealing by a real estate broker, and failing to disclose an ownership interest in a property while...

Can i get out of a lease as landlord before tenant moves in?I will give back deposit

Dear Flushing landlord: Your lease may or may not contain the standard lease provision limiting the landlord's liability for failure to provide...

Is price required in real estate advertising?

Dear Utica Property Owner: If you listed the unusual property with a broker without a stated price, then the teaser of unusual is the likely...

Is there anyway that I can stay in the current apartment as a sublease?

Dear Tenant: If the apartment is rent stabilized, the tenant required the advance consent from the landlord to sublease the apartment. Among the...