My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: New York
I rent one floor of a two-family house. The LL is refusing to supply a handle and lock for my front door. She is also refusing to install a bell on the front door and refusing to fix the refrigerator which constantly leaks. Her reasons are as follows:
1. there is a side door we could use for access which has two very good locks on it.
2. she has already put "so much" money into painting rooms, finishing a wood floor, replacing a (disgusting!) hallway carpet and removing her junk from the apartment, that this is something we should take care of.
3. there is a bell on the side door which a previous tenant installed.
4. she has had to "do up" her front hall because of us, because how could she paint our hallway and then leave the front shabby?
5. She has no money left to fix anything else. (but has asked us to pay in cash...)
Does she really have a leg to stand on with this issue?
Thanks in advance, G.

