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I have been a renter in Brooklyn for 3 years and am about to move from the deep South Slope further North. My current landlord is presenting a roadblock – I hope someone could offer some advice – this may not be the correct forum, but I am a daily Brownstoner reader so I thought I’d give it a shot. Here is the situation:

I gave one-month notice to move December 1st. I had a one year lease from 2007-08 co-signed with a roommate who moved out in 2008. Since the lease’s expiration I have been month-to-month and have had a new roommate. She would like to stay on in the apartment and find someone to take my room.

The landlord’s reaction to this was as follows: he wants her to move out of the building at the end of November OR he has offered that she can move to another 2-BR unit in the building provided that she can find someone to sign a lease with her NOVEMBER 1. He wants to renovate our current 2BR and rent it out for more $$ and has had trouble renting the other unit (which is 5th floor walk-up).

Does he have the right to ask her to move – does the fact that she has paid him monthly rent for over a year not constitute as some form of agreement? I am baffled as to why he would act this way especially considering the RE market right now.

Does she have any right to stay? I feel really guilty about potentially getting my roommate evicted.