Adding Girlfriend To Lease In Nassau
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Yes, someone can live in a house without being on the lease, but there are important considerations: Permission from the Leaseholder: The primary leaseholder (the person whose name is on the lease) must give permission for the person to live there. This is often referred to as a guest or unauthorized occupant.
The landlord of an intention not to renew the lease. (General Obligations Law § 5-905). If you have lived in your apartment for less than one year, or have a lease for less than one year, your landlord must provide you with 30 days advanced notice before raising your rent or not renewing your lease.
Even without a lease or any agreement, you have the rights of a month to month tenant simply by virtue of making your residence in her home. That means she can not evict you withiut 30 days notice that the "tenancy" is terminating.
If someone sub-lets without permission, the rental provider can end the rental agreement. They can ask any of the people living at the property to leave within 14 days. For example, if a rental provider realises their property is being sub-let without their permission, they could give the sub-renter notice to vacate.
If a renter wants to move out of a rental property and they have found someone to take over their rental agreement, they can ask the rental provider to transfer (or assign) it to the new renter. This used to be called transferring a lease.
What is an Approved Occupant? An Approved Occupant is anyone residing at the property who is over 16 years of age that has been approved to stay there by the owner. Am I a “Tenant”? No, the Tenant/s is listed on the General Tenancy Agreement and you are staying at the property as a guest of the Tenant/s.
It is not illegal to be an occupant who is not on the lease. However, it probably violates the terms of the lease that they signed because most leases prohibit subleasing without approval of the landlord.
Basically anyone who is living there needs to be on the lease with your approval so that they are clearly held to the same responsibilities to you as any other tenant. You want as many people liable for your property as there are adults living there. Always.
Yes (list underage children as occupants as well), and you should specify that only the people on the lease will be occupying the house. No one else is to move in without your explicit permission and a rent raise. Also, pets.
If you do not have a written lease, or your lease expired and you don't live in rent regulated housing, the landlord/owner may be able to go to court to evict you even if you did not do anything wrong. It is the landlord/owner's right to evict you without a reason.