Tenant blasting music all night

[Ryan Brown]

Good morning,

I have a section 8 Tenant that is blasting music from  the evening hours of 6pm to 3am on a regular basis. This is a huge disturbance to my other tenants. Because of this, I put up a sign in the hallway that says we are now implementing quiet hours, and I gave each Tenant a piece of paper outlining quiet hours.

This specific tenant disregards quiet hours and continues to play their music loud. At this point, I’m ready to have them removed(evicted) because they’re disturbing the peace but I want to do things the right way. I currently have cameras, but they don’t give audio.  Also, their lease literally expires in less than a month. I’m going to talk to them today about the complaints that I am getting, but if this pursues, what exactly are my options in this situation? 

All help is appreciated and I feel really bad because my other tenants go to work and have children that go to school and they are not able to sleep properly because of the loud music.

[Tim Delaney]

Hopefully your lease has "right to quiet enjoyment" clauses which would give you grounds to evict, however if you don't have audio then you will be reliant on the other tenants providing statements or testifying at the eviction hearing. Since the lease is expiring and I see you are in NYC it will probably be much faster to just not renew the lease. Unfortunately, since you said less than a month till expiration you are already too late to tell them. You need to provide at least 30 day notice to a tenant that you will not be renewing in NY State. That goes up to 60 days if they have been there for more than 12 months and it goes to 90 days if they have been there for more than 24 months.