Monthly Archives: December 2011

Dec 30, 2011
COLLYERS SYNDROME (EXTREME HOARDING)

Cluttering, hoarding, accumulated “stuff” piled high and wide, a condition referred to as a Collyers syndrome (see E.L. Doctorow, Homer and Langley and reality show Hoarders), is the basis for a nuisance eviction case brought routinely by landlords. Extreme hoarding involves the unwillingness or inability…

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Dec 30, 2011
Payment of Attorneys’ Fees by the Losing Party in a Landlord-Tenant Case

The general rule in American courts (the so-called “American rule”) is that each party to a lawsuit bears his/her own legal expenses. Landlord-tenant litigation is sometimes an exception to that rule. Tenants who would like to know whether they may have to pay the landlord’s…

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