TENANT NUISANCES

Notices to Section 8 Tenant Didn't Advise Tenant of Right to Discuss Notice with Landlord

May 20, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict HUD project-based Section 8 tenant for creating a nuisance. Among other things, landlord claimed that tenant’s great-grandson broke and damaged windows in the building. Tenant asked the...

Landlord Must Produce Key Fob Records

May 20, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict tenants for creating or allowing a nuisance. Landlord claimed that there were four separate instances of loud banging noises within the apartment. The court granted tenants’ request for...

Tenant Who Didn't Declutter Apartment Gets Final Chance to Avoid Eviction

May 19, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating a nuisance because tenant maintained his apartment in an unsanitary manner, failed to cooperate with access for extermination, and failed to prepare the...

Landlord Can Evict Tenant Whose Guests Fought at Building

May 17, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating a nuisance. Landlord claimed that tenant had permitted up to 15 people to live in the apartment, causing physical destruction of the premises and the...

Landlord Can Evict Tenant for Repeated Noise, Fighting, and Threats

April 26, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict tenant, claiming that tenant and his guests created a nuisance in the apartment and the building’s common areas. The court ruled for landlord after a trial. Landlord presented testimony...

Landlord Must Provide Specific Information to Tenant About Complaints

April 19, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenant based on nuisance. Landlord claimed that tenant or other apartment occupants threw feces and urine out of an apartment window and repeatedly made loud noise. Landlord...

Landlord’s Nuisance Claim Against Tenant Was Specific Enough

March 22, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nuisance. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that landlord failed to make a claim and that the court papers weren’t properly delivered. The...

Tenant's Conduct Didn't Constitute Nuisance

March 16, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for creating a nuisance. The trial court ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Landlord failed to prove that tenant’s conduct rose to a level of recurring or continuing...

Tenants' Operation of Day Care Home Didn't Violate Lease or Law

March 16, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenants for breaching their lease by running a day care center in the apartment in violation of the lease and applicable laws after DOB issued a violation notice to landlord for...

Landlord Doesn't Prove Tenant Violated Probationary Stipulation

February 16, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for engaging in objectionable conduct. Landlord and tenant signed a settlement agreement in court. The agreement gave landlord a judgment of possession and an eviction warrant, which was...

NYCHA Can Evict Tenant Who Started Fire in Apartment

January 27, 2016    

Tenant filed an Article 78 appeal of landlord NYCHA’s decision to terminate his tenancy. Tenant claimed that NYCHA violated federal, state, and city antidiscrimination laws and that its decision was...

Landlord Didn't Prove Tenant Caused Water Leaks to Apartment Below

January 27, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict tenant for nuisance, claiming that on two occasions tenant used a washing machine in his apartment, causing water to enter a vacant apartment and a basement area of the building. The trial...