All Forum Posts by: Ryan Brown

Since it’s Friday, I may be calling Section 8 about the situation. Prior to this situation, I do not have any verbiage about noise ordinances in the lease since blasting music at late hours of the night is literally a law. Since this is happening at the end of their lease, is it a probably that I’m notifying them less than 30 days that I won’t be renewing the lease and that I’m suggesting them to find somewhere else to live?

Thank you for your reply. I’m not renewing the lease! The timing does suck because this issue came out of nowhere at the end of their lease. So since they’ve been here for about a year, they have 60 days to leave?

Good morning,

I have a section 8 Tenant that is blasting music from  the evening hours of 6pm to 3am on a regular basis. This is a huge disturbance to my other tenants. Because of this, I put up a sign in the hallway that says we are now implementing quiet hours, and I gave each Tenant a piece of paper outlining quiet hours.

This specific tenant disregards quiet hours and continues to play their music loud. At this point, I’m ready to have them removed(evicted) because they’re disturbing the peace but I want to do things the right way. I currently have cameras, but they don’t give audio.  Also, their lease literally expires in less than a month. I’m going to talk to them today about the complaints that I am getting, but if this pursues, what exactly are my options in this situation? 

All help is appreciated and I feel really bad because my other tenants go to work and have children that go to school and they are not able to sleep properly because of the loud music.

Good morning all,
I’m a landlord in New York City and would like to know how to move forward if tenants are damaging the apartment.

As the landlord, I understand that if the stove stops working I have to get it repaired or changed but what if the damage isn’t natural? For example, a broken fridge door, broken window, holes in walls…Normally I would repair it but what if it’s becoming a constant thing?

Do I have to repair it no matter what? Is there a number of times I repair it and then increase the rent a specific amount to cover the repair bills. Please help because this is becoming unbearable, thanks.

Good morning,

So in my lease I have it say “The Tenant will be allowed to have visitors for a maximum of 14 days ONLY with consent from the landlord. If the Tenant’s visitors stay outside of the 14 days; Tenant will be charged an additional $70 every 14 days that the Tenant’s guests are staying in the unit.” How do I enforce this clause in my lease?

My tenants have a family member who is temporarily staying with them who are NOT on the lease. I said no problem? Pointed out the clause in my lease and they have been paying it for a little bit. It’s been a few months now and I’m constantly telling my tenants that I didn’t receive payment. Their response is always, “oh I forgot, I’ll pay today”, but they never do.

I’m an extremely reasonable landlord and it’s starting to feel like they’re taking advantage.

 Basically my question is what can I do? What are my options? Please assist because I’m getting really annoyed and this is not right.

Good afternoon everyone,

I am a landlord in New York City, and I installed mini splits into each unit in my multifamily property. Also, in my lease for tenants, it states that the tenants are responsible for paying for heat utility.

In New York City between the months of October and May, landlords have to have to keep the heat a certain temperature.

My question is, am I still responsible for keeping the temperature at a specific number if I placed mini splits in each unit and that my lease says that the tenant(s) are responsible for paying the heat utility?

Looking forward to your replies, and thank you in advance

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Quote from @Ryan Brown:

Good evening,

I'm a landlord and have a tenant on the 2nd floor who has children. Therefore, it's required to put up window guards for their safety. Since the weather is getting warmer, they would like to use their window air conditioning.

The problem is that the window guards are not allowing the air conditioners to be installed. What options do I have to help my tenants to have some type or relief from the upcoming hot temperatures?

Looking forward to your replies.

Thank you in advance for all the advice/tips.

P.S. Attached is a photo of the window guard

 They can get one of the portable air conditioners that do not extend out past the window.

Thank you for the tip. I have another question. 

In New York City, it’s the law to have window guards for an apartment if a child below the age of 10 is living there.

Is taking out the window guard and screwing in the air conditioner in replacement of the window guards an option?

Good evening,

I'm a landlord and have a tenant on the 2nd floor who has children. Therefore, it's required to put up window guards for their safety. Since the weather is getting warmer, they would like to use their window air conditioning.

The problem is that the window guards are not allowing the air conditioners to be installed. What options do I have to help my tenants to have some type or relief from the upcoming hot temperatures?

Looking forward to your replies.

Thank you in advance for all the advice/tips.

P.S. Attached is a photo of the window guard