Articles by Glenn S. Demby

Concerned about the continued presence of smoke in the community, a tenant with an expiring lease asked her landlord if she could renew on a month-to-month rather than annual basis ...

After the utility company turned off the power to her apartment, a Section 8 tenant and her boyfriend secretly broke into the apartment building’s utility closet and reconnected her electricity ...

A minor living with her mother on the second floor of an affordable housing community pushed through a window screen and fell to the ground 15 feet below ...

Or the tenant may be entitled to exercise that right each time there’s a potential sale.

The legal danger of marijuana leasing isn’t limited to federal prosecution.

A fitness center with nearly four years left on its lease notified the landlord that it was abandoning the premises. You’d better start making mitigation efforts to relet the premises as soon as possible, the notice advised. But the landlord ignored the advice ...

A dry-cleaning tenant began paying reduced rent, starting in 2018. In August 2021, it terminated the lease and moved out. By this time, it owed the landlord about $200,000 in back rent. The landlord sued...