Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in New York

Re: Changing rent payment

I would need more information about the nature of the lease and the nature of the arrangement with your parents. Your issue may be a problem with your parents, and not the tenants, if the lease obligates them to pay your parents.

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Re: Changing rent payment

This is a difficult situation. Since the lease requires the tenant to pay your parents, then the tenant is in compliance as long as he pays your tenants. I can see the tenant's point of view - he is afraid if he pays you, then he will have to pay the parents as well.

The solution is 'reformation' or 'novation', two legal terms that refer to making a new lease or changing the old lease to protect the tenant from having to pay both you and your parents.

This is not difficult and, in the absence of some property interest of your parents in the rental income, an easy procedure that I can assist you with.

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