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    Default Breaking Lease the First Day of Moving in Due to Bedbug Infestation

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: NY

    There's a loooong story with this but to make it as short as possible there is it:

    Signed a year lease for 1 bedroom apartment in a building in Brooklyn.
    First night there, half hour after me and my wife went to sleep we start itching like crazy, turnt he lights on and see bedbugs EVERYWHERE - bed, mattrass, floor, unpacked bags.....

    Landlod did call exterminator the next day. When i told him i'm moving out give me my deposit + first month rent back he said "no, i called exterminator, that's all i'm supossed to do"

    After lot and LOTS and LOOOOTS of phone calls and him changing his story from "no" to "i'll give it back to you when next tenants move in" to "i'll give it back to you when next tenants move in minus the time apartment was empty" to finally, ok, i'll give it back to you minus 10 days u occupied it.

    He did give my money back (-10 days).

    First night my and my slept in my car, rest of the nights at my mother's house. We both work and stopped by that bedbug infested place after work to pick stuff up, straight to the dry cleaners and to my mother's house.

    Sooo..... How should i go about getting my 10 days back and most importantly dry cleaner bills and get money back for the mattres and furniture i had to throw out, moving expences (truck/gas/tolls) back and forth???
    And what are my chances in court????

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    Default Re: Breaking Lease the First Day of Moving in Due to Bedbug Infestation

    Thanx for reply and links.

    I COULD HAVE easily win the case of getting my expences back but i really don't have anything in writing. All was done via 2-3 a day 20-30minutes each phone calls of going back and forth about me moving out and managment refusing to give me ANY of my money back. Will a print-out of phone conversations (number called) be any proof??? Not that i really think it will matter in court but that's probably the only thing i have.

    Managment did sign the paper "releaseing" me from the lease.

    I can also get a few signatures from other tenants in the building stating that they either had bedbugs in the past or just recently but that's about it.....

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