No. Co-tenants are not persons in a landlord and tenant relationship. There is no legal procedures to evict a co-equal tenant. You chose to be...

Dear Manhattan Roommate: NYS Civil Law does not recognize a legal cause grounded in civil harassment. There are statutes that exist within the...

A lawsuit seeking a money judgment on an unpaid defaulted loan is not extortion.

Apply for the down sized apartment without the missing family member. Generally, family members do not have a landlord and tenant relationship...

The old fashioned way, page by page, with the clerk office copy machine, as long as you were allowed to requisition the original unscanned paper file.

The video may be authenticated, but proving a drug deal occurred is unlikely. The video cannot establish the elements of a drug...

Dear Flushing Tenant: You have an honest landlord, so far. In NYS it is illegal to raise the rent simply because the tenant brought in an...

Dear Morris Tenant: No State law imposes a duty upon the landlord to clear snow at a rented private house. A tenant may negotiate for a lease...

Dear Manhattan Business Owner: You have a lease. Look at it. If the lease allows a successor owner authority to end an existing lease early on...

Go on and sue. Likely in Civil Court, if the amount claimed is greater than $10,000.00. Let the defendant worry about raising defenses and...