Essay

KMW

Kaplan University

PA 303 Landlord & Tenant Law

Professor Mark Baum

March 19, 2012

Landlord rights can be summed up as the rights and obligations assigned to a landlord pertaining to the landlord-tenant relationship. The tenant leases a piece of land, flat or an area for the purpose of residing or to provide for work place for the tenant , and in the process of doing so, is obliged to sign a contract with the landlord agreeing to the terms and conditions specified in the statement of contract. A landlord may be a living person who is the rightful owner of a flat, house, property or in that case real estate. When a corporate body is associated with the title rights of a property, that body is the landlord of that particular property and is termed as persona ficta (Latin for juristic person) or a vehicle. The landlord rents a piece of land in the form of an apartment or building or real estate to a person or a business body known as tenant. The two states discussed earlier in Unit 5 Midterm paper were Washington and New York. Each state has its own set of rules and laws regarding the landlord-tenant conduct and relationship, so do the states of Washington and New York, although, the rights and obligations of landlords are more or less the same in the two states but there are various differences too. The various duties of the landlords in Washington and New York have been discussed below along with the onus on these landlords.

New York also invests in its landlords all the basic rights that form the structural and functional basis of lesser-lessee relationship. New York has one of the most documented and comprehensive state as well as local lessor-lessee laws. These laws are in sharp contrast to the laws specified here above. These rights are more specific and implied. Apart from the normal rights of the landlords, the New York landlords possess some more interesting rights like Pet-Security Deposits for allowing the occupants of the premises to keep...