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Landlord
Tenant Dispute Law
If you are a landlord in Central
Islip or Suffolk County and you want
to evict your tenant, or if you are
a tenant in Central Islip or Suffolk
County who has a landlord who is
violating the terms of your lease
agreement or your right to live in
suitable living conditions, we have
more than ten years experience in
handling hundreds of landlord-tenant
matters. Our office has represented
mobile home parks, apartment
complexes, landlords, homeowners,
and tenants in a wide variety of
legal disputes.
Landlord-tenant proceedings are
technical in nature, and they are
commenced in the local district
courts as expedited proceedings. If
the notice of petition and/or
petition is improperly drafted or
served, often times the proceeding
will be dismissed, forcing the
petitioner to start the proceeding
all over again. We know the pitfalls
of the landlord- tenant practice,
and we take care in drafting the
appropriate legal documents and are
diligent in the timely filing of
those documents.
If you are a landlord and wish to
evict a tenant for failure to pay
rent, for violating the provisions
of the lease agreement, or for
staying past the time when you want
them to leave, we can help. We will
advise you on the best way to
proceed prepare the notice of
petition and petition, have the
tenant properly served by a process
server, attend all court
proceedings, conduct all hearings,
and prepare the judgment of
possession and warrant of eviction,
and those documents to the sheriff
to collect on a money judgment and
to evict your tenant.
If you are a tenant and your
landlord is violating the terms of
your lease, or seeking to evict you,
we can ensure that your rights are
protected by commencing an action or
seeking dismissal of an action
commenced by your landlord. In
addition, we can raise the
appropriate defenses to any action
commenced, including a breach of
your warrantee of habitability
(landlord not providing you with
suitable living conditions) and seek
abatement (offset) of rent.
In
case of an emergency, contact
Christopher P. McGuire, Esq. via pager
at 516-440-0086.
Spanish speaking clients should contact
Mary
Peláez, Esq. at
516-440-0017.
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