Residential Tenants & Tenant Associations

Catharine Grad has been representing residential tenants and tenant associations before Housing Court, Civil Court, Supreme Court, and the Division of Housing and Community Renewal for over twenty-five years.   

Eviction Proceedings:

• Non-primary residence proceedings
• Owner use proceedings
  
• Illegal sublet proceedings
  
• Succession claims
  
• Rent disputes
  
• Mitchell Lama tenants
  

• Market-rate tenant  
• Co-Op Proprietary Lessees
  
• Subtenants and Roommates
  

Apartment Conditions:

• “HP” proceedings
• Rent strikes
  
• Tenant Association Representation
  

Rent Overcharge Claims:

• Rent Stabilized tenants
• Rent Controlled tenants
  
• Preferential rent issues
  
• Individual apartment improvements  
  

DHCR Proceedings, including :

• Reduction in service applications
• MCI applications
  
• Demolition applications
  
• Failure to Renew Lease applications
  

Also:

• Hearings before Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)
• Hearings before Environmental Control Board
  
• Disputes with co-op boards