RENTERS
Listen my rental appartment the person who originally signed the lease as decided to move.. He subletted a room and the people he subletted to are refusing to move. I the Landlord know nothing about these people except the person on the lease. Can I legally throw them out?and isn’t it the person on the…
Listen my rental appartment the person who originally signed the lease as decided to move.. He subletted a room and the people he subletted to are refusing to move. I the Landlord know nothing about these people except the person on the lease. Can I legally throw them out?and isn’t it the person on the lease responsibility. I’m now losing an excellent tennant because of these smoochers…..Any advise would be appreciated…Please nnote my tennant is moving only because the smoochers don’t pay rent and he’s been paying since April…
Ya know, yeah, yeah, yeah, we all understand the law and why the landlord can’t just kick this douche/squatter to the curb, but can somebody here please acknowledge that in this case he SHOULD be able to? Stupid. Git out of my house, loser. I mean, please.
A dictionary is your friend.
Please note that the landlord is not the one throwing them out the tennant is.
the side note is that your tenant is responsible for all of this, and you can sue him for the money.
If the tenant throws them out and changes the locks, that isnt your problem.
sounds like a “holdover” proceeding. filed in cases where rent is not the issue but possession of the apartment is the issue. File the paperwork in housing court, 6-10 weeks later you will be in front of a judge. Explain the unauthorized tenancy and have every bit of evidence available, witnesses, leases, photographs, names, dates. The judge should rule in your favor and give these freeloaders a set time to get out. After that order is written, file it with the city marshall and wait. they are unlikely to get an extension due to the nature of their occupancy. the lawyer will cost about two grand, you can do it yourself with help from the pro se attorney available at the housing court as well, but you have to be very smart and detail oriented. You will win in the end but expect to lose a few months of rent and a couple of grand for a lawyer. submit all costs as a loss on next year’s taxes.
It is a crime (as in be arrested, go to jail, have to hrie a lawyer, hope youu can plea to a non crime and pay a fine) if you illegally evict someone. If someone has resided in a property longer than 30 days thay have the right to process. They will lose in the end, but you really have to obey the law here. It is not they who will take to court, but the Ditrict Attorney of Kings County. You might want to remind the tenant that s/he will be responsible for the rent until you can re-rent (in Brooklyn you must make efforts to fill the vacancy [not true in Manhattan]) and the continued presence of the subletters in apartment will prevent you from doing so. You might also tell him the danger of being the defendant in a housing court action (many landlords, fairly or unfairly, refuse to rent to those who have had actions filed by them or against them in housing court). BUT NO SELF HELP. Self help can and shoud gets your butt in jail.
I’ve listen to all advice and please note the landlord doesn’t not live on the premises and as never accepted rent from these people. They never had a lease to live on the premise. There names is not on the lease and this is not low income project or a stabilize rental home. To live in the building you were screened appropriatley and had to have an income and good credit score….. They are going to get thrown out its not a Squatters building…like some one said let them take me to court……
3:59pm, way to take advantage of people’s ignorance and be an absolute jack-a$$.
3:59. You’re the definition of “jerk”
If you want to take that risk, you can find yourself in some serious hot water.
3:41 is totally right!