Landlords will often rent apartments to tenants claiming that they are not rent stabilized when in fact they are. In two recent cases, the Housing Court found for the tenants. Ron Languedoc represented the tenant in Raywood. Sam Himmelstein and Ron Languedoc represented the tenant…
If my apartment was damaged do I have to pay the full rent? NO. Depending on the extent of the damage, you may be entitled to a rent “abatement” or reduction of the rent that you were required to pay. Under New York law the…
In the frenzied rush to rent an apartment in NYC, tenants often rely solely on the representations of brokers, managing agents, and landlords about the type of building they are about to rent. Many of today’s tenants assume they are “deregulated” tenants, or tenants not…
Last week the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to New York’s rent stabilization laws, Harmon v. Kimmel, brought by an Upper West Side landlord. In the case landlord James Harmon argued that the rent laws amounted to a “taking” of property in violation of…
Virtually all forms of rent regulation in New York City-Rent Stabilization, Rent Control, Mitchell-Lama to name a few-require that the apartment be maintained as the tenant’s primary residence. Clients will often say to me at an initial consultation something like this: “The apartment is my…
Cluttering, hoarding, accumulated “stuff” piled high and wide, a condition referred to as a Collyers syndrome (see E.L. Doctorow, Homer and Langley and reality show Hoarders), is the basis for a nuisance eviction case brought routinely by landlords. Extreme hoarding involves the unwillingness or inability…
The general rule in American courts (the so-called “American rule”) is that each party to a lawsuit bears his/her own legal expenses. Landlord-tenant litigation is sometimes an exception to that rule. Tenants who would like to know whether they may have to pay the landlord’s…
Tenants suffering hard economic times have taken to renting their apartments for short term overnight or weekend stays, only to discover-often when it’s too late-that renting out some or all of a rent regulated apartment is not permitted under the Rent Stabilization Code. In fact,…
Over the years, I have successfully represented many clients in succession cases. In the past, succession rights cases were straightforward and simple. Generally, a practitioner would look at three (3) factors: (a) first, the date the tenant of record left or vacated the premises; (b)…
On January 3, 2012, the New York State Court of Appeals will hear argument in the Terrace Court LLC v. DHCR v. Katel, et. al. case. In that case the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (“DHCR”) ruled that, after a facade…
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