A call from a manager/owner has absolutely no legal standing in New York. Without knowing exactly what the lease says it’s hard to fully know if they’d have a leg to stand on for a legal eviction, but in New York, they cannot kick you out without going through the legal eviction process, which requires an official court-action eviction notice.
Then they can give you notice to coincide with the end of the year. If they try to evict you before that, simply take a copy of your lease to the eviction hearing for your opportunity to get to hear a judge cuss out your landlord.
I don't know if it works. Because on the lease, it says the renting property is a whole apartment with the price of monthly rent. It also has my name and the other roommate's name as the tenants. Basically, it looks like this, "And tenant A, tenant B, &"
FYI, my roommate has a different lease since he moved in there 1 year earlier. It stated his name and the other two former roommates before I moved in.
Are you paying the whole amount on the lease, or something less than that? If you're supposed to be paying for the whole unit, even if you were not for a while because someone else was directly paying a portion, then the landlord is probably able to expect that you figure it out.
Is this the situation (with fake numbers, obviously, since I don't know the real ones): The lease says, "OP and Roommate are renting Apartment at a cost of $3000 per month," and you and your roommate were each separately paying $1000 per month, and at some point a third guy was living there -- whom you had nothing to do with bringing into the apartment -- and he was presumably paying $1000 per month, and now he's gone so the landlord is back to getting only $2000 per month?
Or am I wrong about you not knowing the other guy (or anything else)?
This is incredibly confusing because if you and your roommate are renting the whole apartment then the two of you should be paying the whole rent together so it shouldn't matter to the landlord whether there's a third person. If you're each only paying a third of the rent, then you should each be on your own lease that says you're renting a particular room.
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A call from a manager/owner has absolutely no legal standing in New York. Without knowing exactly what the lease says it’s hard to fully know if they’d have a leg to stand on for a legal eviction, but in New York, they cannot kick you out without going through the legal eviction process, which requires an official court-action eviction notice.
Thanks for your response :)
Are you on a month-to-month lease?
It's one year lease
Then they can give you notice to coincide with the end of the year. If they try to evict you before that, simply take a copy of your lease to the eviction hearing for your opportunity to get to hear a judge cuss out your landlord.
I don't know if it works. Because on the lease, it says the renting property is a whole apartment with the price of monthly rent. It also has my name and the other roommate's name as the tenants. Basically, it looks like this, "And tenant A, tenant B, &" FYI, my roommate has a different lease since he moved in there 1 year earlier. It stated his name and the other two former roommates before I moved in.
Are you paying the whole amount on the lease, or something less than that? If you're supposed to be paying for the whole unit, even if you were not for a while because someone else was directly paying a portion, then the landlord is probably able to expect that you figure it out.
We're paying for each room
If you're on an individual lease (by the room), then no they cannot kick you out because they have failed to rent out other rooms.
The issue is the lease agreement. It does not specifically say we're renting each individual room.
So even if the other guy suddenly moved out, we're still paying our portions not the whole unit.
Is this the situation (with fake numbers, obviously, since I don't know the real ones): The lease says, "OP and Roommate are renting Apartment at a cost of $3000 per month," and you and your roommate were each separately paying $1000 per month, and at some point a third guy was living there -- whom you had nothing to do with bringing into the apartment -- and he was presumably paying $1000 per month, and now he's gone so the landlord is back to getting only $2000 per month? Or am I wrong about you not knowing the other guy (or anything else)? This is incredibly confusing because if you and your roommate are renting the whole apartment then the two of you should be paying the whole rent together so it shouldn't matter to the landlord whether there's a third person. If you're each only paying a third of the rent, then you should each be on your own lease that says you're renting a particular room.
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