NEW YORK SUPPLEMENT - 2ND SERIES - LEGAL REPORTER

Landlord Can't Base New Illegal Sublet Claim on Old Termination Notice

October 15, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for illegal subletting. The court ruled against landlord and...

Court Vacates Default Judgment Against Imprisoned Tenant

October 15, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenant for unauthorized subletting. The court ruled...

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Daughter Gets Apartment

October 15, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Tenant’s...

Tenant Can Be Evicted for Son's Drug Activity at Apartment

October 15, 2014    

(Decision submitted by Jeffrey H. Seiden of the Manhattan law firm of Borah, Goldstein...

Tenant's Sister Can't Get Mitchell-Lama Apartment

September 21, 2014    

After Mitchell-Lama tenant moved out of an apartment, his sister claimed that she was a remaining family member entitled to the apartment. HPD ruled that the sister had no succession rights. The sister filed an...

Tenant Primarily Resided at Inherited Philadelphia Home

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant in 2013 for nonprimary residence. Landlord claimed that tenant failed to spend more than 183 days in the apartment in the prior year and that tenant actually lived at a...

Tenant's Agreement to Share Cost of Bedbug Extermination Void

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued tenant, claiming that tenant had agreed to split the cost of bedbug extermination and related expenses incurred by landlord in connection with tenant's apartment. The court granted tenant's...

HUD Tenant Misrepresented Income

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict HUD tenant based on tenant's intentional misrepresentation of household income on Section 8 recertifications. The court ruled for landlord and awarded a judgment of possession. Tenant...

Landlord's Cure and Termination Notices Too Vague

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for violating substantial obligations of his month-to-month tenancy by chronic nonpayment of rent and by failing to provide access for repairs in May 2013. Tenant was in jail from 2010...

Building Substantially Rehabbed Was Exempt from Stabilization

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict an unregulated tenant. Tenant claimed that he was subject to rent stabilization. The trial court ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Landlord showed that prior landlord substantially...

Broker Not Liable for Bats in Tenant's Apartment

September 21, 2014    

Tenant sued her real estate broker for breach of contract, fraud, aiding and abetting fraud, negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Shortly...

Tenant Failed to Renew Rent-Stabilized Lease

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for failing to renew her lease. The court ruled for landlord but permanently stayed issuance of an eviction warrant on the condition that tenant pay use and occupancy at...