Heather Stone

Make sure that all notice requirements in your lease sync up with each other. When notice rules of one provision conflict with those of another, you run the risk of running afoul of notice requirements even if the notice you actually provide satisfies all requirements of the particular clause to which the notice pertains. 

The repeal of the rule doesn't eliminate landlords' fair housing responsibilities. Core fair housing laws remain fully in effect. 

A tenant who lives by himself complains that a member of your maintenance staff has inappropriately groped and made unwelcome sexual advances to his girlfriend on numerous occasions. Other female tenants have made similar complaints about the same employee. To the extent the allegations are true, to whom would you be potentially liable for sexual discrimination and harassment?

Every January, the Coach offers a Scorecard briefing that breaks down the previous year’s key federal fair housing cases and their impact on you. Our Scorecard counts only reported federal court cases in which a landlord was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Ac...

A shareholder-tenant of the NYC co-op kept a series of parrots in her apartment. In 2015 she acquired a new parrot that neighbors complained was particularly noisy. The landlord co-op corporation sent the tenant a number of letters warning her about the noise as a violation of her proprietary lease and house rules prohibiting excessive noise ...