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    Real Estate (Tenant)

 

  • Actions for tenants such as curing lease breaches, defending nonpayment claims, holdover proceedings, negotiating buy-out of regulated tenancies, obtaining succession rights to regulated properties, restoring tenants to possession after fires or other catastrophes, preserving tenancies, opposing claims of non-primary residence or illegal subletting, opposing luxury decontrol applications, proving and recovering rent overcharges.

 

  • Consultation regarding tenant succession rights (for qualified family members) for existing legal residential tenants in rent controlled apartments in New York City.

 

  • Legal support for individual commercial and residential tenants, and tenant condominium and cooperative associations.

 

  • Legal support for residential tenants in actions involving alleged nuisances by the tenant, alleged rent overcharges, lease buyouts, non-primary residence allegations, owner-user proceedings, unconscionable rent increases as compared to the percentage increases allowed by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (NYCRGB), subletting and informal roommate issues, succession rights, unauthorized or illegal alterations.

 

  • Defenses for commercial and residential tenants in nonpayment proceedings such as breach of warranty of habitability, constructive eviction, entitlement to advanced notice of eviction and a hearing if no notice was given, lease interpretation, reasonable opportunity to pay any arrears and comply with the lease, rent control and rent stabilization protections if the unit is located in a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized property, substantial completion or unilateral modifications to the lease.

 

  • Representation includes constructive eviction, failure or refusal by a landlord to renew a lease for a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized unit, habitual nonpayment of rent, illegal sublets, luxury decontrol, nuisance (noise, disturbance, pets and criminal activity), nonpayment of rent, nonprimary residence, personal use holdover (where the landlord intends to occupy the unit), rent abatement, termination notices.

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    Last updated 200721_2210

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