From the Forum: Keeping a Rent-Stabilized Apartment When Your Landlord Dies

A Brownstoner reader’s landlord died and his companion is refusing to renew tenants’ leases.

mzkbee writes:

My landlord died a year ago. His çompanion is in charge of his estate and she is refusing to renew tenants leases. She is also refusing to meet with tenants to discuss the status of the building. My building is an SRO and it is rent stabilized.

I don’t feel comfortable living in a building without a lease and a dead landlord. What should me and the other tenants do?

As we covered last month, and as commenters suggested, what the poster shouldn’t do is spend his or her rent money. But what can they do to feel secure in an apartment without a lease while the legal issues get sorted?

Help the reader out over in the Forum.

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