Dear Southampton Tenant: If your landlord provided your home with legal smoke detectors then your indoor smoking should not set off the alarm,...

Dear Manhattan Tenant: New York State courts see a lease in a manner as a regular contract and also as a conveyance of real property. As with...

Dear Palmyra Tenant: I gather you and your family reside in a manufactured home park. If so, your landlord and tenant rights are regulated by a...

Dear Palmyra Tenant: I gather you and your family reside in a manufactured home park. If so, your landlord and tenant rights are regulated by a...

How can I get rid of a person who has not paid rent, id's a header causing health problem and isn't even staying in the apt.?

Dear Bronx Resident: Your statement is not clear about the relationship your late father has to the apartment. Was he a tenant or was he the...

I live in the first floor and the people upstairs don’t pay rent they live for free and the person who has leased the apartment?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: There is no practical legal proceeding, no certain path to a judge, for a tenant complaint against another tenant in the...

How can I stop this situation legally ?

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: There is no practical legal proceeding, no certain path to a judge, for a tenant complaint against another tenant in the...

Here is the new order for Appellate Division, First...

Judicial orders on rent and mortgages

Dear Wesbury Reader: Governor Cuomo's Executive Orders apply in New York State only. This is a link to the latest...

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: Any tenant in NYC residing within an apartment within a multiple dwelling is entitled to have a full apartment painting...