Is your apartment rent controlled or rent stabilized?

Rent controlled automatically turns into month-to-month and there is generally no need to sign a new lease as the . Stabilized you have the right to renew perpetually, and you are supposed to be offered a new lease, but until you are the rent stays the same.

If neither, you have only whatever options/protections were written into your existing lease (probably not much).

Recommend you call... better to find out what the landlord wants, so you can plan your life properly...

Are there any rules on notifying tenants of a rent increase, ie, 30 days notice, etc...? Perhaps that is in the lease you signed last year. We signed a lease over 10 yrs ago and have paid the same rent ever since & I never ask for a new lease, just have a check mailed (a little early) every month. It would seem to me that if the landlord is prone to raising rents each year, s/he would have contacted you by now, no? Good luck - we also live in an old walk up and are on the top floor so perhaps they feel like replacing us could be difficult. I do hear crazy stories in this city, so if you are concerned then call. If, however, you can live with a bit of uncertainty then just keep paying the monthly agreed in mid-2011 until told to pay more (or you opt to move).

30 days notice for a rent increase is NYC law, no?

Sorry, I forgot the apostrophe in "days' " -- mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!

"30 days notice for a rent increase is NYC law, no?"

Only if you want to impose the rent increase the very next month.

If you simply let the lease expire and you're living in an apartment on a default month-to-month without a lease, then the landlord can pretty much do whatever he wants.

>>"30 days notice for a rent increase is NYC law, no?"
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>Only if you want to impose the rent increase the very next month.

I don't follow this response, Matt. I was asking about the status of NYC law.

For market-rate leases, there're no laws as to any increase for the next lease. What you pay during the term of the lease is per the lease itself. As are any renewal options.

If you go month-to-month after the lease expires, then the tenant has to get 30 days notice before being evicted. That's as far as the law goes.

True. I confused the 30-day-or-more notice that the landlord wants you gone, with the process of eviction.