While her pro se action demanding the refund of one year's prepaid rent after Hurricane Sandy allegedly rendered her cottage uninhabitable was pending, tenant Deborah Schwartz discovered her landlord did not have a permit to rent the cottage, and amended her pleadings to include all previously paid rent.
August 25, 2015 at 12:00 AM
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The renter of a Sag Harbor vacation home has been granted the right to sue for all four years of rent she has paid to her landlord—nearly $150,000—by a state judge in Suffolk County earlier this month.
Tenant Deborah Schwartz had brought a pro se action in May 2013, claiming the heating system in her waterfront cottage was damaged beyond repair by Hurricane Sandy, which struck seven months earlier.
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