Holdover Tenant in Brooklyn

[Kevin Zheng]

Hi Everyone!

My parents have a condo at Brooklyn which is occupied by a holdover tenant for a few months now. My parents wants her out due to no lease nor agreement among my parents and holdover tenant. Additionally, holdover tenant is now subletting out the rooms making income and advertising it on 168.com. Please help me. 

[Marc Winter]

Kings County Housing Court is a dark and expensive place where the tenants/occupants/even squatters have more 'rights' than landlords/owners!  An experienced occupant can string the owner and system along for up to a year or longer.  

Don't do 'self-help' eviction--recently an owner was arrested for changing the locks on their property that was illegally occupied by a squatter!

All that being said, get an experienced attorney and have them file for possession ASAP, and then they can try the carrot/stick approach with this holdover:  cash for keys OR we'll proceed with the pending eviction. 

Just for fun, review the condo docs to determine if subletting is permitted.