Need a Tenant Lawyer ASAP

WHOOOOOAAAAA sorry guys!!
Everytime i create a thread i get that stupid server notice!!! sorry for the multiple versions!

obviously did not look like anything was posting, even when i opened in a new window. Anyway, hopefully you will have referrals for me and thanks again....

It's OK. If all a landlord had to do to get rid of a RS tenant was not send a lease, there wouldn't be any left. Go look on tenant.net or somewhere like that.

thanks NWT, lots of useful info on this site!

Go to this site: http://www.housingnyc.com

You have to navigate through, but they have tenant attorneys who answer questions. There are tons of threads of different issues, I'm sure you can find answers to this question.

If things get really bad, you can call these guys:
http://www.hmgdjlaw.com/

In itself, not receiving a renewal lease isn't a big deal. Happens all the time, Has your sister responded promptly to all DHCR information requests?

This is a non-issue. The law is 100% on the tenant's side in this case for a rent regulated tenant. In fact, the tenant gets extra benefits:
a) Landlord can't receive an increase that would have come with the renewal
b) Tenant now has a month to month option

Landlord is required to provide a lease according to the law. Absent the landlord providing the lease, the tenant loses no rights of tenancy. Hiring a lawyer will just cost the tenant a cost of hiring a lawyer, and the most a lawyer will get for the tenant would be a renewal lease, which would then restart the monthly rent at the higher post-renewal (per the regulations) rent.

OMG, total emergency!

Huntersburg is entirely correct. It is to her benefit. I was in a stabilized apartment for 4 years without a lease. Never had a rent increase. Yes, the landlord wanted us out. But he couldn't do anything about it. This is a non-issue.

Steve Palitz is a very good tenant lawyer in private practice.

http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/10006-ny-stephen-palitz-874365.html

THANK YOU very much GG, appreciate it!

I had good experience with this person a while back, was about preferential rent.

Seth A. Miller
Collins, Dobkin & Miller LLP
Attorneys at Law
277 Broadway, 14th Flr.
New York, New York 10007-2001
Tel.: (212) 587-2400
Fax: (212) 587-2410

Hmmm - where were all of these attorney recs when Foolishrenter was looking for tenant-side attorney? Personal bitterness aside, I am glad there are now a number of names on the board. I am following a case that Elizabeth Donoghue from HMGD&J (W81st's rec above) is handling and like their work.

Ridiculous
No lawyer is necessary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/opinion/tipping-the-scales-in-housing-court.html

I would recommend Jeff Roberts