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Reddit mentions of The Landlord's Legal Guide in New York (Legal Survival Guides)
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| Height | 11 Inches |
| Length | 8.5 Inches |
| Release date | March 2007 |
| Weight | 1.58953290902 Pounds |
| Width | 0.81 Inches |
I am not a lawyer. You are not my client. Even if I were a laywer, you would not be my client.
The general rule is that the guy continues to own his property and you have to provide him with written notice (generally, certified return receipt mail with signature required) that he has 30 days to pick up his stuff and after that you're going to try to dispose of it. If you know he's gotten the message (hence, the certified return receipt) and the time elapses, then you're generally in the clear.
You can't just throw it away without such notice, even if an enormous amount of time has passed; you have a duty to preserve these things that you're in temporary possession of.
But each state has its own peculiar variations of the rule, and NYC has its own rules besides.
It's surprisingly difficult to get the new york specifics on this.
I agree with throwawayi9i9; getting the pamphlet might be useful. You might also like to look at http://www.amazon.com/Landlords-Legal-Guide-Survival-Guides/dp/1572485914.
Alternately, if he was on the lease, you can make it your landlord's problem: hey, your former tenant left this stuff. (This doesn't work if he wasn't on the lease and was just subletting; then the guy he was subletting from is responsible).
Amen, brother.
I'll just add that OP should also read RPL 235-f
> 4. Any lease or rental agreement for residential premises entered into
by two or more tenants shall be construed to permit occupancy by tenants, immediate family of tenants, occupants and dependent children of occupants; provided that the total number of tenants and occupants, excluding occupants' dependent children, does not exceed the number of tenants specified in the current lease or rental agreement, and that at least one tenant or a tenants' spouse occupies the premises as his primary residence.
Ah hell, here's some more required reading:
https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/nyc/housing/pdfs/Landlordbooklet.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Landlords-Law-Book/dp/0873379276 or http://www.amazon.com/Landlords-Legal-Guide-Survival-Guides/dp/1572485914 (and the Nolo book is good too, but not NY-specific).