What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY
I live in a rent stabilized apt in Manhattan. My 1-year renewable lease expires on March 31 and I get my renewal notice at the end of November. By December of last year I didn't have the renewal notice and started calling my management agency. They kept telling me they were "too busy" to issue a lease renewal but I shouldn't worry because I was "fine."
Instead of a lease renewal they sent me a rent statement that included my new lease date of April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009 but they never sent me a lease renewal form even though I've been calling for the past 7 months. On July 1st I got a new roommate, went through the entire process of submitting information to the management co. and they said my roommate's credit had been approved and they had switched the names on the lease. I asked them to send me a copy and they said they'd fax it to me that same day but they didn't.
For the past 3 weeks I've been calling them and they always come up with an excuse not to send me the lease renewal with my new roommate's name on it. They keep telling me that they have the paper somewhere but can't find it or they're "too busy" to fax it. Finally they said that they'd have to come inspect the apt. in order to renew the lease (this after they'd told me that they had already switched the names on the lease).
This morning the manager came to my apt and said all of this:
1. He'll take away our washer/dryer so we have more space
2. I don't have a lease because my lease expired on March 31 so I'm a month-to-month tenant
3. If I want to retro-renew the lease to April 1, 2008 I can do that but he won’t add my roommate’s name to the lease because “sometimes you live with a person and they are crazy and I don’t know if your roommate is crazy, if he has credit” (my roommate was sitting right next to me)
4. If I want to have a shared lease with my roommate he’ll have to issue a new lease “very similar to the one have or just few changes” and the rent “will be a little bit more, maybe seventy five dollars or two hundred dollars but it won’t be more than 2,000” (my rent currently is $1,800 and from what I know of the law, he’s not supposed to raise it by more than $54)
What are my options and legal rights?
I’m filing a complaint with the NY State Dept of Housing for landlord’s refusal to give me and to renew a lease but I want my new roommate on the lease. We’ve always switched roommate names on the lease and now this jerk off says I can’t out of nowhere.
Thanks for your help!
I live in a rent stabilized apt in Manhattan. My 1-year renewable lease expires on March 31 and I get my renewal notice at the end of November. By December of last year I didn't have the renewal notice and started calling my management agency. They kept telling me they were "too busy" to issue a lease renewal but I shouldn't worry because I was "fine."
Instead of a lease renewal they sent me a rent statement that included my new lease date of April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009 but they never sent me a lease renewal form even though I've been calling for the past 7 months. On July 1st I got a new roommate, went through the entire process of submitting information to the management co. and they said my roommate's credit had been approved and they had switched the names on the lease. I asked them to send me a copy and they said they'd fax it to me that same day but they didn't.
For the past 3 weeks I've been calling them and they always come up with an excuse not to send me the lease renewal with my new roommate's name on it. They keep telling me that they have the paper somewhere but can't find it or they're "too busy" to fax it. Finally they said that they'd have to come inspect the apt. in order to renew the lease (this after they'd told me that they had already switched the names on the lease).
This morning the manager came to my apt and said all of this:
1. He'll take away our washer/dryer so we have more space
2. I don't have a lease because my lease expired on March 31 so I'm a month-to-month tenant
3. If I want to retro-renew the lease to April 1, 2008 I can do that but he won’t add my roommate’s name to the lease because “sometimes you live with a person and they are crazy and I don’t know if your roommate is crazy, if he has credit” (my roommate was sitting right next to me)
4. If I want to have a shared lease with my roommate he’ll have to issue a new lease “very similar to the one have or just few changes” and the rent “will be a little bit more, maybe seventy five dollars or two hundred dollars but it won’t be more than 2,000” (my rent currently is $1,800 and from what I know of the law, he’s not supposed to raise it by more than $54)
What are my options and legal rights?
I’m filing a complaint with the NY State Dept of Housing for landlord’s refusal to give me and to renew a lease but I want my new roommate on the lease. We’ve always switched roommate names on the lease and now this jerk off says I can’t out of nowhere.
Thanks for your help!