Some classmates often react that when renting a house in New York, they see a bunch of contracts and can't start, and they don't know what key points need to be paid attention to. Today, I will give you an inventory of 8 rules that New York renters must know. Read and recite them well, and renting will not suffer.

Refunding the rental deposit is a real problem. New York law requires that New York apartment complexes require a refund of the deposit within 14 days after check-out, and itemize damages, deductions situation.

However, due to the complicated procedures for international students and the surge of housing staff after the epidemic, sometimes the processing cycle may be as long as 2-3 months, so students need to wait patiently. Of course, any questions about the deposit can be directed to the building of New York Apartments.

The building must notify the tenant at least 30 days in advance of the lease expiry, asking whether to renew the lease.

Rent Stabilized's annual rental growth rate also needs to be within the range of the Rent Guidelines Board, generally between 5%-15%.

*Due to the special reasons of pandemic, the rent increases in some New York apartment buildings this year are out of this range.

Generally, in non-emergency situations (fire, medical emergencies, etc.), buildings cannot enter the room without not prior notice.

Such as scheduled maintenance or showing customers, in principle, the building needs to be sent via email, SMS inform in other ways.

In the event of unauthorized entering the room in the building, students must leave the card in time to protect their rights and interests under the premise of ensuring safety.

Sometimes we have to break the lease due to life or job changes.

At this time, there are several common treatment methods for New York apartment buildings. Some buildings will require payment of liquidated damages; some buildings will require payment of rent until the next tenant moves in. until.

However, New York clearly stipulates that the building needs to help tenants find a next home, let it out as soon as possible, students don't have to worry too much.

Of course, if you have already found your "next home" in advance, congratulations, you can avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles!

Many students worry about the safety of New York City. In fact, New York apartment buildings are legally required to provide essential services to ensure the safety of residents.

For example, the luxury apartment where our international students live almost all provide 24-hour doorman service, and some New York apartment buildings use virtual doorman after the epidemic strong> to ensure that suspicious persons are not allowed into the building.

According to New York's heat law, the building is required to have 24 hours hot water and heating.

During the heating season (Oct 1—May 31), the temperature inside the building must also be maintained at 68F during the day and 62 at night strong>Fahrenheit level.

Although these facilities are provided, most New York apartment buildings require residents to pay for water and electricity through PSEG and other common power companies. Students must be aware of it before moving in.

This law can be said to be super student friendly!

It requires New York apartment buildings not to conduct any discrimination against tenants on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. . Although anti-discrimination is the consensus of everyone, it is still safety up that there are legal guarantees.

When necessary, you can use this law to protect yourself, of course, I hope you will never encounter such a situation.

Sometimes, due to dizziness or procrastination, it is inevitable to forget to pay rent on time.