My two friends and I have been living without a lease in a Brooklyn apartment for just over a year. Our landlord refuses to give us a lease, saying it benefits both him and us not to have one. However, 7 months after moving in he raised our rent, and after that still refused to give us a lease locking in our rent for any amount of time. Also, over the past year he has yet to complete any of the repairs we've asked him to do.
My two questions:
1. Can we force him to give us a lease?
2. How can we get him to make the repairs? Polite, but firm letters (3 of them) haven't worked. For the amount we pay we should not have to live with things not being repaired. I feel without a lease he doesn't have to do a thing for us.
<small>[ March 06, 2002, 04:49 PM: Message edited by: carlkinas ]</small>