Help! I think I'm being forced out of my apt!

maybe the landlord is trying to sell the building and doesn't want to sell with tenants. That's my best guess at the time. You can always check out tenant.net Good luck.

Since this isn't a rent-stabilized apartment, you don't have any recourse unless you can show discrimination or alike. As the above posters suggested, your best option is to just discuss this with your landlord.

Get in touch with Metropolitan Council on Housing and they can help you sort this all out. There are ways you can delay having to move out. You can also check and see if in fact the apt is supposed to be rent-stabilized. You can't be put out in the street for 3 months until they can evict you after not renewing your lease.

This is all why keeping rent-stabilized apartments is so important. Once they get to market-rate then there is no recourse for tenants.

Met Council 212-979-0611 Mon, Wed and Fri 1:30pm-5pm they take calls.

Unfortunately, according to the Office of the Attorney General's Tenants' Rights Guide ( http://www.oag.state.ny.us/bureaus/real_estate_finance/pdfs/tenants_rights_guide.pdf) it looks like:

"For non-rent regulated apartments, a tenant may only renew the lease with the consent of the landlord and may be subject to eviction at the end of the lease term. However, a lease may contain an automatic renewal clause. In such case, the landlord must give the tenant advance notice of the existence of this clause between 15 and 30 days before the tenant is required to notify the landlord of an intention not to renew the lease. General Obligations Law § 5-905."

If I'm reading the above correctly, the automatic renewal clause does not guarantee the tenant renewal only states that no new lease need to be signed and the current, about-to-expire lease, will carry over.

Also:

"A tenant with a lease is protected from eviction during the lease period so long as the tenant does not violate any substantial provision of the lease or any local housing laws or codes. For both regulated and unregulated apartments, landlords must give formal notice of their intention to obtain legal possession of the apartment.
Unless the tenant vacates the premises by a specified date, the landlord may commence eviction proceedings through: (a) a summary non-payment court proceeding to evict a tenant who fails to pay the agreed rent when due and to recover outstanding rent, or (b) a summary holdover
proceeding for eviction if a tenant significantly violates a substantial
obligation under the lease (such as using the premises for illegal purposes,
or committing or permitting a nuisance) or stays beyond the lease term
without permission. Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL)
§ 711."

This looks like, if you stay beyond the end of your lease, the landlord can start eviction proceedings.

Good luck man.

you are complaining about the "new younger" people moving in and speaking about smoking weed and cigarettes in the same sentence which kinda makes no sense and shows you certainly haven't lived here long...

park slope used to be a hippie neighborhood!

people used to smoke weed here MUCH more than they do now.

and as for cigarettes, 30 years ago, probably twice as many people smoked.

smoking has been on the decline for many years.

Frank Serpico wrote:
I think these twenty somethings nowadays have it way easy and are less likely to let go of their old college habits.
I don't have my parents house to fall back on and I don't live with four other roommates to pay my rent. And I don't throw annoying beer parties that go late into the night with my windows wide open blaring top 40 radio like I live in a dorm.
I'm just grown up. Which is sad that this younger generation does not feel compelled to do so.

Sweeping generalizations generally go over SO well when you're looking for advice...
:roll:

I'd be willing to be the vast majority of 20-somethings you see in park slope are NOT living off of their parents...

Frank Serpico wrote: I hate the internet. I got my answer, goodbye.

i killed another n00b

Using the phrase "suck at life" doesn't make you sound "grown up" or more mature than these 20-somethings you're complaining about.

Frank, Noob is a term for newbie...as in a new poster on this site. Its not an insult. Everyone is a Noob at first.
Additionaly, judging from your attitude I would not want you in my building either. You sound like a bitter man.
I am glad you got your answer. I am sure you realize that you have no recourse what-so-ever. I highly recommend Staten Island. You can socialize with other people that hate the internet and call each other assholes.

Unfortunately,
Thats just a short term solution as
Staten Island will soon become part of the "South Slope".


Try guttenberg nj. weve no interest in annexing that.

Garfunky wrote: Unfortunately,
Thats just a short term solution as
Staten Island will soon become part of the "South Slope".


Try guttenberg nj. weve no interest in annexing that.

Hah!

rent strike!

good riddance

Am i missing something or is part of this post missing?