Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in New York

Re: Office Lease - Month-to-Month Requirements

This must be difficult for you. At least (as a commercial lease, it is office and not retail space. Losing a retail space is a disaster.)

What has happened is that (this is a legal fiction, but describes what has happened) you and your landlord have agreed to renew the old lease, but for only one month. Each month that the landlord does not give you 'demand to leave' indicates that the old lease will be renewed for another month.

You have no rights beyond one month, but within that month you have all of the rights you had under the lease. You have a 'month-to-month lease' under the terms of the old lease.

I recommend that you investigate alternative locations for your office. In addition, make sure that you retain the telephone number. That is important, and you don't want the landlord to 'sell' it back to you for some large amount of money. It would be unscrupulous for the landlord to behave this way, but it can happen.

There are other issues, and you are welcome to discuss them with me.

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Re: Office Lease - Month-to-Month Requirements

If it was a term of the lease, it is effectively a term of your what is now a month-to-month agreement, so long as your landlord accepts rent.

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