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Owner Occupancy Holdovers

A very common tactic if for the landlord to seek an eviction of a Rent Stabilized tenant in New York based on an allegation that the landlord intends [...]

If a Nonprimary Residence Holdover Proceeding Is Dismissed, Can the Landlord Bring a New One?

Before a landlord can begin a nonprimary residence holdover in New York Housing Court, he must serve what’s known as a Golub notice — a notice of nonrenewal [...]

Primary Residence

Frequently, the landlord of a rent-stabilized or rent-controlled apartment will start a lawsuit in housing court, claiming that the tenant does not live in her apartment as her [...]

Do I Have A Right to A Jury?

What is the single most important thing you can do to help your housing court case? It is to file a jury demand and pay the jury fee to [...]

Assignments

A tenant is said to have assigned a lease when he or she has given an apartment to another person permanently. This is different from subletting, where a tenant lends [...]

Illusory Tenancy

An illusory tenancy occurs when the lease tenant of a rent stabilized apartment does not actually live in the apartment, but has placed another tenant/subtenant there in order to [...]

Illegal Subletting

A tenant is properly subletting when she leaves her apartment to someone else for a temporary period of time not exceeding more than two years. Rent stabilized tenants generally [...]

 

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