Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New York
no lease,no contract
if there is no lease or contract when renting from someone can they hold you or anyone else responsible for damages to the apartment when you were living there and before you were living there? what can they hold you responsible for?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: no lease,no contract
No written lease does not mean no contract
A lease of an apartment or house for less
than a one year period (month to month counts)
is valid
Everyone who the landlord met with and allowed
to move in could be held liable. So could
invited guests, if there is proof that they
did the damage
all liability is joint and several, meaning
everyone is equally liable, but the landlord
may collect from anyone. thus, if one
tenant is rich and the other poor, guess
who the landlord will collect from. This
will leave the tenat who is rich to try to
get his disproportionate share of payment
from the tenant who is poor.
The moral is "don't damage"
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