Daily Archives: May 4, 2011

NY Tenant Cancels Lease Due To Second-Hand Smoke

A landlord’s failure to resolve a tenant’s complaints of cigarette smoke emanating from the apartment below justified a rent abatement and dismissal of the landlord’sattempt to recoup the remainder of the unpaid lease, ruled a Nassau County, New YorkDistrict Court judge. However, he rejected the tenant’s counterclaims for reimbursement of paid rent and “thousands” for […]