No, owners who choose to provide an electronic lease needs to initially obtain the occupant's voluntary written consent on form EL-TVC Electronic Lease Offer: Tenant's Voluntary Consent Form.

Tenants who willingly concur with the deal might sign the approval kind electronically and return it electronically or if essential, sign the authorization type by hand and return the type to the owner by postal mail or individual service. If there are multiple tenants called on the lease, besides spouses or domestic partners, each occupant should provide their signature to license grant the electronic offer supplied by the owner.

Any occupant who believes that they are being persuaded into signing the voluntary approval type, is threatened with retaliation for declining to sign, or asserts their signature was fraudulently added to the kind, can file a DHCR Tenant's Statement of Complaint(s) - Harassment (RA-60h).

For more info on the rights and responsibilities, guidelines, and treatments relating to electronic lease renewal offerings, see Operational Bulletin 2022-1 and form EL-TVC.

2) How much of an increase in lease will I need to pay when my lease is renewed?

The owner might charge a rent boost based upon lease guidelines authorized by the applicable Rent Guidelines Board. In specific instances, the rent boost may be computed to consist of suitable Major Capital Improvement or Individual Apartment Improvement increases. For more details, consisting of existing lease guidelines, see Fact Sheet # 26.

3) Do I have a right to restore my lease?

Tenants in rent stabilized houses have a right to choose a one- or two-year renewal lease term. Generally, the renewal lease must keep the same terms as the ending lease. For additional information, see Fact Sheet # 4.

4) Under rent stabilization when must the renewal lease be offered?

In New York City (NYC), owners need to give written notification of renewal by mail or individual shipment not more than 150 days and not less than 90 days before the existing lease expires. Outside of NYC, owners must initially sign and date the renewal notice, and after that send it by qualified mail not more than 120 days and not less than 90 days before the existing lease ends. Tenants have 60 days to choose a lease term, sign the lease, and return it to the owner. Failure to respond within 60 days of the lease offering might result in expulsion proceedings. For more details, see Fact Sheet # 4.

5) What if my owner does not provide me a renewal lease?

A renter should first contact the owner to get a lease. If the owner stops working to offer a renewal lease, the renter has a right to submit a complaint with DHCR on kind RA-90, Tenant's Complaint Of Owner's Failure To Renew Lease And/Or Failure To Furnish A Copy of A Signed Lease. For more details, see Fact Sheet # 4.

6) When a lease has several tenants called on the lease, what is the effect on the rent to be charged at the time of the lease renewal, when one of the named renters leaves?

In the occasion that 2 occupants are called on a lease and one occupant leaves, the staying tenant is entitled to a lease renewal in their name. However, if the staying renter wishes to include a brand-new tenant to change the vacating tenant, it depends on the owner to approve of this. If authorized, the owner is entitled to provide a job lease with any legal rent increases.

7) Are the spouses in lawfully carried out very same sex marital relationships, entitled to the very same lease defenses appropriate to partners in legally carried out opposite sex marital relationships?

Yes. This will widen the scope of both how succession rights can use and the right to include the name of a partner on the lease.

8) Does a renter in a rent stabilized home can include their spouse's name to the lease?

Yes. The occupant has the right to demand that the owner include the name of his, her or their spouse to the lease as an additional renter if the spouse resides in the home as a main home. The owner is required to add the additional names at the time of lease renewal. There is no rent increase related to this modification, aside from the approved renewal lease boost rates in result at the time of renewal.

9) Is the property manager allowed to gather extra down payment money at the time of a lease renewal, while a DHCR lease order is in result?

Yes, provided that the property manager has actually used, and the renter has actually accepted a lease renewal. This consists of lease reductions for fire damaged or vacant order apartments where the rent has actually been minimized to $1.00.

10) Under what circumstances can the collection of a down payment be waived?

When an owner states in writing that a security deposit is no longer needed and returns it in its totality, the owner waives their right to collect any security deposit in the future from an existing occupant. This waiver will use to any subsequent brand-new owner who can not request a down payment from this tenant.

When there is a change in ownership of a building, and the brand-new owner requests a security deposit from a tenant where the prior owner did not request it, the brand-new owner can gather a down payment only if the occupant's job lease includes an arrangement for a down payment, with a quantity defined. If it does not contain this provision, the new owner can not charge the tenant a down payment.

11) My building owners thought that I no longer utilized my apartment as my main residence due to my annual winter season residency in Florida. As a result, they did not use me a timely lease renewal. However, they stopped working to prove this in court and now have to use me a renewal lease. When does it commence and what are my rights?

In New York City, renewal leases are required to be offered in between 90 and 150 days prior to the expiration of a lease.

In this circumstance, the owners would offer a renewal lease less than 90 days prior to the expiration of the existing lease. Therefore, the occupant has the alternative of asking for that the lease be dated to start on (1) the date a renewal lease would have begun had a timely offer been made or (2) on the very first lease payment date occurring a minimum of 90 days after the date that the owner does offer the lease to the tenant.

The guideline boost to be charged can never be more than the rate in effect on the date in alternative (1 ). Whether the renter selects alternative (1) or (2 ), the brand-new lease will not go into impact before the first lease payment date happening a minimum of 90 days after the offer is made. To learn more, see Fact Sheet # 4.

While non-primary residence concerns are exclusively figured out by the courts, the rent stabilization code points out several factors to be taken into consideration when making a decision. These elements consist of however are not limited to the addresses on tax returns, motor automobile registrations, chauffeur licenses, voting addresses, and occupancy of a housing accommodation of less than 183 days.

12) My very first lease included a provision that forbade the belongings of family pets on the rental residential or commercial property. However, I purchased a dog and it has been living in the home with me for 4 years. The owner is threatening to not restore my lease and/or to evict me due to the fact that of my insistence on keeping my animal. What are my rights?

The right to own an animal is determined largely by lease arrangements however is also based on N.Y.C Admin. Code Sec. 27-2009.1, commonly called the "Pet Law." Issues occurring under the Pet Law are not decided by this company. Matters that can not be settled in between the parties should be brought to court.

The Pet Law supplies in part that where a renter harbors a pet for 3 months or more and the owner or his, her or their agent has knowledge of this fact however fails within this three month period to proceed to court to implement the lease arrangement that prohibits animals, the lease arrangement will be considered waived.

However, the lease provision can not be waived if the animal harms the premises, creates a problem, or interferes with the health, safety, or welfare of other tenants.

To see Section 27-2009.1, see page 12 of the NYC Housing Maintenance Code.

13) Can owners need occupants to purchase rental insurance for their houses?

Owners are only enabled to need tenants to buy rental insurance for their apartment or condos if it is included as an arrangement in their job leases. It can not be included for the very first time to a renewal lease. In absence of that vacancy lease provision, owners are not enabled to need the purchase of rental insurance coverage.

14) Are owners needed to accept rent checks signed by somebody who is not called on the lease?

No. Owners are not needed to accept lease checks signed by somebody who is not the occupant of record, called on the lease.

15) A house topic to rent control is vacated. It is now being rented as rent stabilized for the very first time. Can the owner charge the tenant a preferential lease that is less than the Initial lease supported lease?

The lease actually charged and paid by the very first supported tenant is the preliminary rent supported rent. Therefore, in many situations there can not be an additional preferential lease. Exceptions exist if the subject home goes through a regulative arrangement and the monitoring agency establishes a lower lease.