I have a warrent to ivicted a tennant. Tha tennant has a person living in the apartment illegally.

If the warrant names the tenant along with john doe/jane doe, then normally the marshal should evict any unknown persons. However, if you know...

My tenant has violated her lease by letting her son stay with her, he is an adult. smokes . Lease up in sept.

You cannot just change the locks. Once her lease is expired, commence an end of lease holdover proceeding against her (assuming she is not rent...

You cannot be forcibly evicted without a court order. You may go to housing court and take out an order to show cause for the illegal lockout....

A Petition was filed and now the tenant I am trying to evict says there are 'electrical problems. They are now on month-to-mont

If they are a month-to-month tenant, perhaps you can just commence a holdover proceeding to evict them - this would be the easiest type of case. If...

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I want to sue a former roommate for back rent. What type of attorney should I seek for assistance?

You would want to hire a civil litigation attorney to handle this for you.

Eviction notice was served to me 6 months after I had moved out of the apartment. It was a very informal arrangement is it valid

It is unclear what kind of notice you received: was it a rent demand? a notice of eviction from the marshal? Without knowing at what stage of the...

Trying to sell our business and our landlord has killed three deals...

More information is needed to adequately answer this question. In order to determine whether your landlord acted in a manner justified under the...

IF YOUR FAMILY MEMBER MOVE IN WITH YOU CAN YOU ADD THEM TO YOUR LEASE IN NYCHA APARTMENT

Well, you have done everything that you are supposed to do. I would ask what your concern is that they are added to the lease? I'm assuming their...

Should I file a holdover or nonpayment after the lease got expired and no month-to-month rent paid since the lease got expired?

Under these circumstances, I would strongly argue against commencing a nonpayment proceeding as there is no lease in place. It is best to serve a...

I have a yrs lease with my landlord I have already paid last mnths rent and now being harassed by neighbors can I break lease

You already asked this question/ I believe this is a duplicate post. Here is the...