Did your landlord fail to give you notice of the name and address of the bank in which your security was deposited? If you look at the back of your checks paying the security and the rent, were they deposited by the landlord into the same account? You may be able to get your security back immediately! Licensed New York Attorney since 1978. Office of Court Administration #1622018.
Call or email, today, to find out if you can get your security deposit back right now, even while you remain in occupancy. Amos Weinberg Esq. will bring suit for you on a contingent fee of 25% payable only out of recovered monies with no upfront cost. Web site: AmosLegal.com Email: amos@amosLegal.com
New York has strict laws protecting a tenant’s security deposit. A landlord taking a security deposit has to demonstrate that it was put in a separate account or else he has to pay back the security with 9% annual interest from the beginning of the lease. The separate account has to be only for security deposits and cannot be for the landlord’s general operating funds. If the security deposit is put in the same account as the rent, it shows a violation of the law. Payment of the last month’s rent in advance is still a security deposit. When a landlord gets a security deposit, he has to give written notice of the name and address of the bank holding the deposit. If he does not, he has to prove, in court, that the security was deposited into a separate account. The landlord cannot defend an action for return of the security deposit by showing that the tenant is in violation of the lease, or owes rent, or damaged the premises. If the landlord has commingled the security deposit with his personal funds, the tenant is entitled to get it back immediately! If the landlord has to give back the security deposit, he cannot demand that the tenant replenish the security. If the landlord is a corporation, the individual responsible for the security deposit is personally liable for it.
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