I’ve been living in my Williamsburg loft for the past 5 years and never have my landlords been so interested in renovating our space and the common areas (new skylights, new sprinklers, fire door installation, security cameras, etc.) until now. I believe this renewed interest was prompted by the construction of a new grocery store on the ground floor of the building, which has gained a lot of attention due to numerous building code violations.<\/p>\n
All points lead me to believe that my landlords have been operating without a proper certificate of occupancy since the beginning and now are attempting to correct all structural problems so as to receive one. I double-checked my original lease (which is clearly a residential lease) but if the lease is for addresses that do not technically exist (because they don’t have certificates of occupancies) is the lease null and void? Is it basically a fake lease? Do I have to pay rent if my landlord can’t\/won’t furnish a certificate of occupancy?<\/p>\n
I also read an article on a different property that involved a tenant who didn’t pay rent because of a lack of CO but the landlord was able to sue for back rent because it was proven that the landlords were making attempts to receive a CO, which often is a lengthy drawn out bureaucratic process.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been living in my Williamsburg loft for the past 5 years and never have my landlords been so interested in renovating our space and the common areas (new skylights, new sprinklers, fire door installation, security cameras, etc.) until now. I believe this renewed interest was prompted by the construction of a new grocery store…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-50851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c_of_o"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/11\/is-a-lease-null\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Is a Lease Null and Void if C of O Cannot be Furnished?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/11\/is-a-lease-null\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/11\/is-a-lease-null\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"C of O","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"WhySoShady"}],"creator":["WhySoShady"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-11-11T13:45:34Z","datePublished":"2010-11-11T13:45:34Z","dateModified":"2010-11-11T13:48:46Z"},"rendered":"