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As an attorney I actually manage rentals for clients. I typically do it better than my clients, I can get the money quicker, I track it, and if tenants do not pay I can evict them quicker, etc.Recently I had a tenant who I was instructed to give a 30 day notice of termination of tenancy since they were chronically late on their rent so the landlord decided he would put it up for sale. The tenants verbally informed me they would move by a certain date. Well they didn’t so when my client’s workmen showed up ... to prep it for sale … I got an earful from my client. Because of the delay It took me 2 months to get them out.. and with that I also got a $5500 money judgement against the tenants (which I doubt will ever be paid but it seriously affects their credit). At the hearing the tenant complained that because of the eviction action they could not find another rental — no landlord would take the chance! It seems her and her husband were then stuck living in her grandfathers basement with 3 kids (one newborn).COMMENT ON THE ABOVE SITUATION: If the tenant had communicated and not lied to me (when they said they were going to move and did not), I could have worked it so they probably could have stayed in the rental for quite a while until the LL forced me to get them to move.. or sold the house. As an attorney I can work a deal that will not screw the tenants (not screwing the LL either but knowing the LL’s concerns and satisfying both the LL and the tenant at the same time) .. but I won’t make the effort if someone lies to me and gets me angry. Right now I wish they had communicated so I was not forced to evict them and get a money judgment — in fact I feel sorry for them.Another tenant — who just happens to be disabled — got behind on his rent and I took him to court.. he refused to pay so I got a judgment of possession allowing me to evict him. He said he would move.. then he said he wanted to stay a month.. and paid for that month.. then another month then another. It seems he could not find as nice a home for the rent my client was charging. Eventually he paid 100% of what he owed (over $7,000) plus my fees and his attorneys fees. A couple of months later I raised the rent!COMMENT ON THE ABOVE SITUATION: While the tenant got behind initially, the tenant communicated with me (his defense to the eviction was a very small amount of mold and other maintenance issues to get out of paying rent), and then when he realized he would have to move he realized that he had a deal. So I gave him time until he fully paid up. Finally while it looks snarky when I said I raised the rent, I did not raise the rent to the full market rate — with my client’s approval the tenant is still paying $100 to 200 a month below the rental market for a comparable rental.In Summary: Try to communicate with your landlord, be truthful and open-minded, negotiate and be reasonable — most landlords are not trying to screw with their tenants but they are businessmen and need to make a return on their investment.

In NYC, occupancy under an expired lease constitutes a "month-to-month" tenancy operating under the same terms and conditions as the expired lease. The tenancy will continue indefinitely until one party informs the other of termination, which notice may not be less than 30 days in advance of termination or any change in rental terms.

Nothing can happen if a landlord merely “tells” a tenant that they have to move out, regardless of the reason.Even if there is no written lease, termination of a tenancy must be done in writing to be legally valid. In most jurisdictions, written notice of termination is required to be served at least 30 days prior to the termination date.In a month-to-month tenancy, no reason is necessary or required for either party to terminate the tenancy, so the fact that the landlord is selling the property is irrelevant.