As a landlord, it's inevitable that some level of damage or deterioration is going to occur while someone else is leasing the space from you. Landlords often take security deposits and to give them a little bit more protection. If the tenant causes severe damage to...
As a landlord, you may be trying to decide if you should include the utilities in the monthly payment. You can either charge someone rent and then tell them they have to pay the utilities on top of that, or you can raise the amount that they have to pay each month and...
Your apartment is rent stabilized, but you just got notice that your landlord is raising your rent due to improvements that have been made to the building. Is this legal? Quite possibly. It depends partially on the type of improvements your landlord made. Here’s what...
Most lease agreements require new tenants to pay security at the beginning of the rental period. The security deposit is meant to replace or fix any damages or losses occasioned by the tenant. The tenant has a right to their security deposit at the end of the lease...
As a landlord, you want to know that the people you rent your apartments to will look after them well. You want to be sure they won’t use them to conduct criminal activity such as drug dealing or prostitution. You also want to know that a tenant will not threaten...
As a landlord, you may occasionally want to enter the apartments you lease out. While you might own the place, you cannot just enter when you feel like it. Tenants have the right to a certain amount of privacy. This can create conflicts for you, as a landlord....
You get a new tenant. They never mention they are a pet owner, and you made it clear you do not accept pets. Yet, within a week, you hear meowing from their apartment. When you knock on their door and ask if they have a cat, they say that the cat is their emotional...
When you rented out the apartment that you own in New York, you found tenants that you thought would be respectful to the space and able to pay the rent. You wanted to make sure that you had someone who would take care of the building and who wouldn't cause a lot of...
As a landlord, you certainly cannot turn prospective renters away because they have a disability. If you do, they could take you to court for discrimination. Yet what if you are not turning them away out of malice but because you think your apartment will not be...
New York laws specify three circumstances in which a landlord may evict a tenant early. Even if the situation meets one of them, landlords must take great care to proceed with the removal correctly. Tenants typically do not like being thrown out, so they may seek to...
