Extending stay till I find a new place (apartments, lease, tenant)

[renter111]

My lease ends on June 30th.
My landlord sent me a letter of "No intent to renew the lease" around May 25th via registered post.
I have been super busy with some medical emergencies and work/study.
I am trying to look for a new place and most of the nice places are Co-ops and which requires month long approval process.
I am not sure I can make the June 30th date.
What are my options if the landlord doesn't want to give me couple of weeks?
I don't want to ruin my rental history (I heard on NPR that apparently in NY area there is some sort of blacklist maintained by the credit checking agencies) by any kind of eviction record on my name.

Please help.

[STT Resident]

Talk to your landlord and see what you can work out if you can't find something by the beginning of the month.

[renter111]

Well so the deal is landlord is not happy with us because we had hair problem in shower and clogged it and thus doesn't want to renew the lease (although since then we have added protection by using Slip-X Solutions Two Stop-a-clog Drain Protectors).

I had asked landlord the day I got the notice about possible one month extension and landlord said NO.
What can I do?

[ShaneSA]

Nothing. Move by the 30th. Extended stay may be the only way to go until you find a place to lease. Don't cause a problem with the landlord by trying to stay, it will follow you for years as a negative.

[STT Resident]

If you stay there after your lease ends you'll be served with eviction and, whether or not it actually ends up in the courtroom, that will stay on your record and make it very difficult to rent elsewhere for a long time - at least where property management companies and private landlords do background checks. To avoid this, make sure you leave by June 30th whether you have a permanent place to stay or not. Stay in a motel or on a friend's couch if you have to but move out and leave the place spotless so you get your security deposit back.

I don't see why a background check should take 30 days - a few days to a week max is more like it - so you've plenty of time left to find something suitable!

[renter111]

Actually it is the board approval that takes time and not credit checks (board members meet only on certain days of the month like end of the month).
Anyway thanks for the advice.
I will avoid Co-ops then.

[FelixTheCat]

i've looked on airbnb. people rent out apartments, houses and rooms by the day, week and month.

[DaniellaG]

Not exactly your situation but when I have rented condos they have had an HOA approval processes and stated they need 30 days. I once needed a place sooner and explained to them that and they ended up being able to rush the process.

[neguy99]

If you need the rental reference, and it sounds like you do, you really should try to get out on time. By far that's the best option.

That said, there may not be much a LL can do to force you out quickly. Here (RI), a LL can file initial papers with the court 5 days after the lease end, formally serving you notice can take another day or two, and from the time of receipt a tenant then has 20 days to file a response with the court, and only at that point will the court clerk schedule a hearing... usually another two to three months in the future. Even then, if a tenant has been continuing to pay rent (or trying to) and has even a hint of a sympathetic story, judges are more likely to give them another 30 or 90 days and schedule anther hearing, rather than issue an immediate order to vacate.

[STT Resident]

^^^ And the process will still be reported on the court record to be seen on a background check. Landlord's don't care about all the ins and outs - many of them (particularly corporate entities/PMCs) just automatically nix any application which shows a filed eviction.