edensdesign
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY
We rent the top apartment in house in Rochester NY, the house does not have a certificate of occupancy. hen we found the place it was in need of a lot of work... the landlord told me that they would pay me to do the work and take off from the rent... so upon moving in I let them know what i would want for each thing that had to be done... they then agreed to a portion of it and gave me the material money needed to get started... i did the portion of the work we agreed to and expected to be paid... they did pay me, but less than agreed... and then even demanded the rent money... i didnt wish to argue and create a problem so paid it... and now after a few months have gone by... they seem to think i should have done the rest of the repairs... even though we never discussed that work or came to an agreement... and now they used the keys they have to come into the foyer of the house and take some property of mine worth hundreds of dollars... demanding i do the rest of the work to get it back... as far as i know they should not have even rented to us here without a c of o , but i dont know for sure... do we have any options?
We rent the top apartment in house in Rochester NY, the house does not have a certificate of occupancy. hen we found the place it was in need of a lot of work... the landlord told me that they would pay me to do the work and take off from the rent... so upon moving in I let them know what i would want for each thing that had to be done... they then agreed to a portion of it and gave me the material money needed to get started... i did the portion of the work we agreed to and expected to be paid... they did pay me, but less than agreed... and then even demanded the rent money... i didnt wish to argue and create a problem so paid it... and now after a few months have gone by... they seem to think i should have done the rest of the repairs... even though we never discussed that work or came to an agreement... and now they used the keys they have to come into the foyer of the house and take some property of mine worth hundreds of dollars... demanding i do the rest of the work to get it back... as far as i know they should not have even rented to us here without a c of o , but i dont know for sure... do we have any options?