I want to remove this tenant? Please help

[Ryan Brown]

Hey everyone, this post is going to be a little long so please bear with me since I’m in dire need of advice and assistance.

When this section 8 tenant initially signed the lease, it was him and his daughter for a 2 bedroom apartment. After a year has passed, the daughter was taken off the new lease so now it is just one person living in a two bedroom apartment. For the past month, he has gotten into it(verbal) with another tenant, he has been blasting music all hours of the night, forcing me to have to speak to him and telling him not to blast music because it’s disturbing the other tenants. He continued to do it for several nights, but lately he has stopped. 

The other day, the daughter who was taken off of the lease, was yelling at the father outside of his apartment, cursing and threatening him. Several cops came and arrested the daughter. This was loud enough for the other tenants to hear which made them feel uncomfortable because the environment now feels hostile and unsafe.

Unfortunately, all this started happening when I renewed the lease, which means this tenant is going to be here for the next 11 months and I am obviously not renewing it.

My other tenants are very concerned for their safety and I’m seeing on the cameras that this section 8 tenant is having people over every single day. I can almost guarantee that he has at least 3 other people living with him who are not on the lease.

I never did an eviction before, but when his lease is up, should I send them the 90 day lease non-renewal letter and see what the tenant does? Do I have grounds to evict this tenant once the lease is up? I really don’t want this person in my property anymore. Can the experts that know the New York City law please chime in. I am looking forward to everyone’s reply!

[Chris Seveney]

Quote from @Ryan Brown:

Hey everyone, this post is going to be a little long so please bear with me since I’m in dire need of advice and assistance.

When this section 8 tenant initially signed the lease, it was him and his daughter for a 2 bedroom apartment. After a year has passed, the daughter was taken off the new lease so now it is just one person living in a two bedroom apartment. For the past month, he has gotten into it(verbal) with another tenant, he has been blasting music all hours of the night, forcing me to have to speak to him and telling him not to blast music because it’s disturbing the other tenants. He continued to do it for several nights, but lately he has stopped. 

The other day, the daughter who was taken off of the lease, was yelling at the father outside of his apartment, cursing and threatening him. Several cops came and arrested the daughter. This was loud enough for the other tenants to hear which made them feel uncomfortable because the environment now feels hostile and unsafe.

Unfortunately, all this started happening when I renewed the lease, which means this tenant is going to be here for the next 11 months and I am obviously not renewing it.

My other tenants are very concerned for their safety and I’m seeing on the cameras that this section 8 tenant is having people over every single day. I can almost guarantee that he has at least 3 other people living with him who are not on the lease.

I never did an eviction before, but when his lease is up, should I send them the 90 day lease non-renewal letter and see what the tenant does? Do I have grounds to evict this tenant once the lease is up? I really don’t want this person in my property anymore. Can the experts that know the New York City law please chime in. I am looking forward to everyone’s reply!

 If you are in NYC you are gonna want to get an attorney involved. I would strongly recommend not handling it on your own. I would also recommend getting a property manager as well in the future.