That will depend on how definite and unequivocal your expression of financial difficulties was. In a recent New York case, before the term of the 15 year commercial lease was to begin, the New York tenant advised the landlordthat it was experiencing financial difficulties. By an email message, the tenant offered the landlord certain “options” […]
Category Archives: Landlord / Tenant Law
A New York landlord can only restrict two tenants per bedroomin some situations.In a recent case, a husband and wife filed a complaint with HUD that the management company refused to renew their lease after concluding that the family of five was too large for the 1,464 square foot, two-bedroom apartment that they had occupied […]
If you are a landlord and you have a tenant who isn’t paying the rent, there are some steps you must take to evict them. First, you must make a rent demand. If the tenant fails to pay the rent after receiving the demand, the landlord can start a nonpayment case in court. To start […]
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In New York, tenants have the right to privacy within their apartments or rental homes. There are certain circumstances under which a landlord can enter an apartment. However, in general, landlords are expected to leave their tenants alone in their rental homes. Under New York law, there are three reasons that a landlord can enter […]
If you rented a house or apartment from a New York landlord, the landlord most likely required you to give a security deposit before you were allowed to move in. Usually, the security deposit is equal to a month’s rent. If a person chooses to renew his or her lease, and the rent is increased, […]
Many New York tenants returned home after Hurricane Sandy to find catastrophic damage and loss of power, heat, hot water and elevator service. New York residential (including cooperative) tenants are protected by the warranty of habitability under New York Real Property Law §235-b. It is implied in every New York residential lease that the premises […]
The owner of a Long Island, New York senior housing development has agreed to pay a settlement of $58,750 to the surviving husband of a woman who died soon after the landlord refused to make an exception to its no-pets policy to allow her to keep her dog, which her doctors said she needed for […]
After withholding rents for one year, senior mobile home tenants in Newstead, New York have reached a settlement with their landlord. Fifty tenants of the Quarry Hill Mobile Home Park began withholding their rents and water charges through their attorney, Robert Friedman of Friedman & Ranzenhofer, PC in December, 2011. They alleged unsafe and unsanitary […]
A landlord of a New York City restaurant obtained a warrant of eviction pursuant to a default judgment. A city marshal executed the warrant and barred the tenant from the restaurant. Shortly thereafter, a court granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) staying the landlord from removing the tenant’s property from the premises, restored the tenant […]
The landlord served the tenant with a notice of termination for physically assaulting him and making alterations to his bathroom and kitchen without permission.After the landlord started a holdover eviction proceeding, the tenant filed an answer alleging that the landlord had assaulted him, not the other way around, and was facing criminal charges. He also […]