What constitutes an apartment “Not Livable”? and Can you sue a Coop for the cost of living in another apt. while paying on both

Dear Brooklyn Co-op Shareholder You wasted one year. You should have commenced a lawsuit against the Board last Spring as soon as the Court...

Dear Brooklyn Friend of a Tenant Do you mean the Landlord rented the apartment first to your friend, your friend moved in and lived alone, and...

Dear Flushing Co-op Shareholder The simplest way to do so would be to stop smoking in the apartment for an agreed period. If neighbors...

Dear Syracuse Tenant Roommates are persons added by a Tenant on his own volition and who pay rent to the Tenant. Co-Tenants are persons who...

What are my rights? Could I be sued for rent arreas?

Dear Corona Tenant: Your landlord has options for commencing an eviction proceeding. If you have a current lease, the landlord may initiate a...

Can a landlord charge you a separate price from the rent to use the basement and garage in a house rental?

Dear West Hempstead Tenant That may be a very smart move by the landlord to carve out the non-residential space from the residential space. Show...

Dear Jamaica Resident: Yesterday you wrote: "...Her estate was less than 50k by the way..."...

Surrogates Court is operating online. Use the do it yourself forms. All the property owned by your mother passed automatically to a Decedent...

Dear Corona Landlord Well he did cut up the door, so you know he could do so. More likely you want to know if a lawyer could construct an...

Dear Manhattan Tenant: The reason you "...expressed that I want to leave as the noise from shouting, music and smell of smoke, litter at all...