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Tenants of the Skyline Apartment Complex are suing the property s management company for breaking a basic agreement in their lease: a providing a safe, habitable space.
The tenants are represented by Staff Attorney Joe Maslak at Legal Services of Central New York.
In New York, every lease between a landlord and tenant includes a promise of warranty of habitability, a promise by the landlord that they will maintain the property in safe, clean, habitable condition. Our position is they breached that, they broke that promise.
He says the office was contacted by well over 20 residents in recent months complaining that Green Skyline Apartments, LLC was not addressing broken elevators, human waste and used syringes in hallways and stairwells, and trespassers freely entering the 365-unit building.