Apartment Rentals in New York City – what you need to know.
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Up until now, your rent payments didn’t impact your credit score – more or less. Of course, if your landlord had to sue you to collect the rent, there was a negative impact on your credit
The City’s Worst Landlords – And Their Terrible Buildings
The issue of rent stabilization has been a needle in the side of New York landlords for over 40 years. The arguments boil down to this…
“The landlord appears to have committed a grave error,” said Thomas P. Higgins, a Manhattan landlord-tenant lawyer. Since the lease defines the tenant’s space as including the backyard, Mr. Higgins said, the landlord has no right to let others use it.
The number of truly useful articles on renting an apartment in New York are minimal, and often they can’t make up their minds whether they are trying to appeal to newbies to the rental scene or sophisticated New Yorkers.
RDNY.com, through its new broker division, Acmelistings.com, now provides apartment rental listings to over 80 real estate brokers and agents in all boroughs of New York City. Every day, over 4,000 available apartments are put in the hands of working brokers and agents who need rental apartments in New York for their customers. These are the same listings available through…
The real estate agent/broker is disappointed that he won’t get to keep his commission. So he’s telling the renters that they will have to forfeit it to the ‘landlord’. Ha! The landlord isn’t going to keep that commission and he knows it.
Even as New Yorkers exit city en masse for vacations, residential leasing approaches boom-time highs August 01, 2011 07:00AM By Candace Taylor in TheRealDeal.com New Yorkers are fleeing the city in the scorching summer heat, trading subway cars for the Hamptons Jitney and business casual for bathing suits. Even so, the residential rental market is as sizzling-hot as the temperature,…
As usual, neither tenants nor landlords are happy. And as usual, landlords say they are on the way to the poorhouse and tenants say that nobody but the very rich will be able to live in New York. And as usual, thousands of people will be competing to rent apartments in New York City this year, next year, and beyond.
How can you compel a landlord to fix a buzzer?
Owners need to know that in the event the rent laws expire, the tenants occupying those rent-stabilized units would REMAIN PROTECTED pursuant to the terms of their leases and the numerous tenant protections contained in various other laws.
The dog days of summer are back for apartment renters. The Manhattan vacancy rate in May fell to 0.7%, its lowest level in nearly five years, according to broker Citi Habitats. Landlord concessions, such as a free month’s rent for signing a new lease, have dried up. Average Manhattan rental prices are just a hair below their 2007 peaks.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has created a website for renters to track New York City\’s worst landlords. \”We want these landlords to feel like they\’re being watched,\” de Blasio said. \”We need to shine a light on these folks to shame them into action.\”
A judge ruled last week that an Upper East Side renter could break her lease because her landlord failed to deal with her complaints about second-hand smoke.
The lease on my apartment expires in September. He wants to show it to potential buyers now. We are eight months away from the end of the lease. Can I refuse to let him show it?
Have you been wondering about whether you\’ll be protected if your personal property gets damaged, or if someone injures herself in your apartment?
Do rules made by the condo board apply to tenants like me? I would assume that new rules would be unenforceable if they required me to do or not do something addressed by my original lease.
The Manhattan residential rental market rebounded last year, and at a faster clip than many had anticipated, according to a new report.
Q What are the regulations when a New York City rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant? What determines how much the rent can be raised, and how is it calculated?
Excerpted from \”Shady Landlord Schemes And How To Fight Back\” by Christopher Steiner and Maureen Farrell, in Forbes.com Two winters ago Astoria, N.Y., resident Rachel Colley was freezing in her own apartment. Looking to squeeze a few pennies, her landlord refused to crank up the heat. Colley, a senior account executive at JS2 Communications in New York, called the city…
Bargains are drying up for Manhattan apartment renters – reflective of a broader trend in the other four boroughs as well.
If a parent is a guarantor on a NYC lease, What kind of documents should the parents provide and are there are forms to sign?
The City Room blogger at The New York Times Online has been doing us all a public service. Kudos to her. She started asking what kinds of controversial demands New York City landlords make on renters, particularly those renters that need a guarantor.
It doesn\’t take much these days to find oneself strapped for cash. But with a little creativity and knowhow, even renters can use their homes as a means of income.
The key to finding the right NYC apartment is… not your broker, not the free websites, not even having lots of money (although that helps). The key to finding the right apartment is both obvious and hidden inside you.
Having sat on both sides of the table–I personally have rented three apartments in three years, so I understand what a colossal pain finding a place in Manhattan is–I’ve learned a thing or two about how to go about securing the best apartment on the best terms.
\”Unfortunately, a lot of New York City landlords are used to doing the cheapest fix or repair possible and when it comes to exterminating bed bugs, that’s just not going to work,\”
The form, the DBB-N, or Notice to Tenant: Disclosure of Bedbug Infestation history, is to be signed by a landlord and a new tenant when a lease is prepared, giving tenants a last chance to back out.