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Fordham Urban Law Journal

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1980

Landlord

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Maintenance And Repairs Of Cooperative Apartments: Rights And Remedies Of Tenant-Shareholders, Damon R. Maher Jan 1980

Maintenance And Repairs Of Cooperative Apartments: Rights And Remedies Of Tenant-Shareholders, Damon R. Maher

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This comment examines the duties landlords have to maintain a habitable dwelling for tenants. It also recounts the various remedies tenants have when their landlord fails to meet its duties regarding habitability. The comment then goes on analyze whether or not these remedies are available to leaseholders of a cooperative apartment against the cooperative corporation that owns the apartment. In cases when those remedies are not available, this comment will recount what remedies are available.