Dear Albany Tenant You are not sharing the apartment with the tenant already in possession, because the landlord breached your lease. You have...

Dear Brooklyn Friend You also have no evidence that the money you sent to a friend for a trip was a loan, or had to be paid back to you. Your...

Dear Brooklyn Home Owner You are correct that the basement apartment is illegal to rent and that the tenants should not have rented the...

Dear Brooklyn Tenant The new tenant security deposit statute suggests that the Roommate is entitled to the return of the security deposit. You...

Then Human testimony may help you and not the store. If you do not successfully litigate a motion to dismiss on grounds of laches (five years is...

The "Will" is the original signed and witnessed document. It should never be unstapled. A copy of a Will is not the document submitted for Probate...

I gather this traffic incident occurred in a foreign country, that does not administer NY State Law? If so, then likely you require an attorney...

Dear Manhattan Tenant You haven't mentioned what you did so far to remedy the problem. Rather than list the obvious measures, let's start with,...

A partial vacate order is not an eviction proceeding in Housing Court. The City Agency that issued the vacate order has police power to enforce the...

The controlling statute suggests that the landlord now owes double the tenant security deposit because the refund refusal is willful.