Brooklyn Legal Services Tenant Rights Coalition

Pleasant enough people but they were unequipped to give me the help I needed to file a successful complaint with the DHCR for rent overpayment, which is what I would expect a tenants' advocacy group that offers free legal services would be able to provide. As my case sat in endless limbo, Brooklyn Legal Services begrudgingly granted me 3 appointments over a span of two years for extremely general consultation and, when I eventually received a totally BS judgment from DHCR, didn't respond to my emails and phone calls requesting an appointment to discuss my options. I wound up spending $5k for a highly regarded tenant lawyer who wrote and submitted a kick-az Petition for Administrative Review letter for me. I'm mad I wasted those two years.

My experience of Landlord and Tenant case isn't current, in person. But duration of ongoing litigation, by phone is not amicable but civil somewhat. So many factors to weigh in, on. When a management convinces the Judge, that there