Lease Question for 2 Family House

Hi All, Question: We own a 3 story, 2 family house in Bed-Stuy and will be renting out the top floor apartment soon. In regards to the lease, what are we able to include in terms of asking a tenant to vacate if we want to sell the house or want to take back the top floor of the home for ourselves? Should we add a rider that includes an ‘X Number of days notice to vacate’ – are we even legally allowed to? Any advice on this much appreciated! fitch

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fitch | 10 years and 11 months ago

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Thanks! I am definitely not planning to take back the apartment within the year, or to sell – I was thinking further down the line – the 12 month lease turning into a month-to-month sounds like good advice to me. Thanks again!

slopefarm | 10 years and 11 months ago

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Don’t sign a 1-year lease if you think you might take the unit back in less than a year. Not fair to tenant and it won’t work, for the reasons stated above. (I’m a landlord, not a tenant.)

resident2 | 10 years and 11 months ago

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In a two family owner occupied house lease you can put in almost anything you want; but it still needs to go through L & T court to enforce it. So just give a 12 month lease, with no mention of options to renew or cancelation clauses etc. and if you are all getting along and the tenant ends up being a month to month tenant after the initial one year lease, just bare in mind that you still need to give one months notice to cancel the month to month lease and the court can still give the tenant up to 6 months to move out. The bottom line; you can write what ever you want, but the tenant can never sign their rights away and the law over rides anything you may put in writing, once a person has lived in your apartment for 30 days, they have tenants rights. If you are planning on selling soon; do not rent it to tenant; just AirBnB it or similar situation.