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Landlord Can't Void Preferential Rent Due to Nonpayment

September 26, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court by which tenant agreed to pay the back rent owed in installments. When tenant's...

Landlord Can't Get Full Rent from Section 8 Tenant

September 25, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict NYCHA tenant for nonpayment of rent due from June 2012 through July 2013. Tenant argued that landlord's rent claim was stale. Landlord had failed to correct Housing Quality Standards...

Family Member Can't Be Evicted for Nonpayment of Tenant's Rent

September 21, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict the successor family member to rent-stabilized tenant's lease for nonpayment of rent. The court dismissed the case because there was no landlord-tenant relationship between the parties....

Rent Demand Defective

July 18, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict Section 8 tenant for nonpayment. Tenant claimed that landlord's predicate rent demand was defective and asked the court to dismiss the case. The court ruled for tenant. Landlord claimed...

Successor Tenant Not Responsible for Back Rent

July 17, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent, claiming that tenant owed over $8,000 in back rent from September 2013 through February 2014. Tenant argued that landlord sought rent that accrued after her...

HPD Improperly Terminated Tenant's Rent Subsidy

July 17, 2014    

HPD terminated tenant's Section 8 rent subsidy after her children no longer lived in the apartment with her. Tenant filed an Article 78 appeal of HPD's decision. The court ruled for tenant. HPD appealed and...

Four Nonpayment Cases in Four Years Wasn't Chronic Nonpayment

June 16, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for chronic nonpayment of rent. Landlord claimed that it had brought four nonpayment proceedings against tenant in four years. The court granted tenant's request to...

Tenant Didn't Owe Back Rent for Period There Was No Lease

June 16, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent during a period when tenant was holding over. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that there was no rental agreement between the parties for the...

Successor Tenant Not Responsible for Back Rent Predating His Lease

June 16, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent, claiming that tenant owed $14,000 for the period from April 2007 through April 2013. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case. He claimed that...

Rent Demand Didn't Provide Good Faith Statement of Rent Due

June 16, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that landlord's rent demand was fatally defective. The court ruled for tenant, finding that the rent...

Landlord Mistakenly Failed to Collect Lease Renewal Increase

June 12, 2014    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. Tenant had signed a two-year renewal lease commencing Jan. 1, 2010, at a monthly rent of $671. But landlord continued to bill tenant at $611 per...

Landlord That Sought Rent Didn't Violate FDCPA

June 12, 2014    

Cooperative shareholder tenant sued landlord co-op corporation, its directors, managing agent, and former attorneys, claiming that they made unlawful attempts to collect rent and related fees from her in violation of...