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I worked in a building in which you needed to see management for temp key cards.
The cards had a chip that would time out on a given date and made inoperable. ( Key no longer works ).
This was supplied to contractors ,visitors etc.....
If your building has this set up then no problem.
There are so many types of security systems in place. It is unimaginable.
Best Wishes...
How can a landlord legally define who can or cannot be one's girlfriend?
Yes flouting... Autocorrect... Nothing to do with who or who cannot be one's girlfriend. She isn't on the lease and thus, she cannot come and go as if she lives there.
In NYC you have a right to a roommate. This can also be a non-spouse partner. So the LL can't deny you a key for that person.
Yes, but at the same time, the landlord is supposed to be notified should that be done, and that hasn't been done here. Then there is this...
As is usual with New York housing law, there are some caveats that you should be aware of. The applicable statute here is Real Property Law § 235-f, which provides individual tenants with the absolute right to let all of the following people live with them:
The tenant's “immediate family:" The law doesn’t define who counts as immediate family, but another law in New York, the Rent Stabilization Code http://tenant.net/Rent_Laws/rsc/rsc2520.html, does define this phrase and the housing courts have carried that definition over to this statute. Immediate family means spouses, kids, stepkids, parents, stepparents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and parents- and children-in-law. Sorry, stepgrandparents, you don’t count - and neither do boyfriends and girlfriends. So, if you are a single tenant, you cannot bring in both your romantic partner and another occupant.
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Yes flouting... Autocorrect... Nothing to do with who or who cannot be one's girlfriend. She isn't on the lease and thus, she cannot come and go as if she lives there.
Correct, the landlord has the right to know who lives in his aparments and she has to give him her data and the LL has to accept her as tenant, only then can she live there and be put on the rent contract as co-tenant and pay part of the rent.
Yes, but that's not the case here. The guy just has a GF that stays with him part time. The LL can't stop this, and to some extent has to accommodate it.
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Originally Posted by pierrepont7731
Yes, but at the same time, the landlord is supposed to be notified should that be done, and that hasn't been done here. Then there is this...
As is usual with New York housing law, there are some caveats that you should be aware of. The applicable statute here is Real Property Law § 235-f, which provides individual tenants with the absolute right to let all of the following people live with them:
The tenant's “immediate family:" The law doesn’t define who counts as immediate family, but another law in New York, the Rent Stabilization Code Rent Stabilization Code Part 2520: Scope, does define this phrase and the housing courts have carried that definition over to this statute. Immediate family means spouses, kids, stepkids, parents, stepparents, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and parents- and children-in-law. Sorry, stepgrandparents, you don’t count - and neither do boyfriends and girlfriends. So, if you are a single tenant, you cannot bring in both your romantic partner and another occupant.
Yes, but that's not the case here. The guy just has a GF that stays with him part time. The LL can't stop this, and to some extent has to accommodate it.
After he checks her out, but he can still say NO, it is his house!
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Nothing to do with who or who cannot be one's girlfriend. She isn't on the lease and thus, she cannot come and go as if she lives there.
