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Your options would depend on the terms under which you placed a "deposit" for the apartment. Those terms should be stated on the rental application you submitted.Absent any terms to the contrary, and depending on the laws of your state, their acceptance of your deposit --in and of itself-- could be construed to have established a tenancy, or the intent to create a tenancy, even though there was no written lease executed by the parties. This you would have to discuss with a lawyer.If by "deposit" you mean a security deposit and/or first month's rent, and the money was accepted, then that's an entirely different matter.Your instincts are correct and you should follow them. Simply put, if they wanted to rent the apartment to you then you would have a signed lease by now. Hopefully you saw other suitable apartments while you were there that you can rent as a back-up plan.Good luck.

You need to get a lawyer involved in this discussion and review the terms of your franchise agreement etc…More than likely, based on franchises I have seen in the past you can rent the property to someone (as you are the owner) but they would need to get a franchise agreement with the hotel chain themselves.Any other way, if your name is on the franchise you would still be responsible.You could look for a full time property manager, someone to fully run the business for you and work out the compensation agreement for a flat monthly payout to you and they, as the manager get the remaining profit. This would require however that you detail requirements for maintaining standards and property conditions as well.

It didnt happen for me, so i'm guessing it was a default option which you didnt notice you had to uncheck... :)But coming to the question of why it's there in the first place...Because by doing so, Quora manages to retain a sizeable chunk of new visitors who would otherwise be welcomed by irrelevant feed (like a Canadian banker finding a story about India's infatuation with IITians) or very general popular posts that he/she might not find that interesting.I suspect (and I apologize for being unable to substantiate this with data) that a large number of users stumble upon quora through a social media website like facebook or twitter... It is reasonable to expect that social curiosity ("my friends are all using it lemme see what its like") would be a strong factor in a lot of people trying out quora for the first time... Working under the assumption that one might have shared interests with one's facebook friends is in my opinion a good first guess. It is also not unreasonable to expect that if there are folks who you would love to hear on quora, they might be on your facebook friend list as well...But wait, Quora explicitly asks me what my interests are when I join. Doesn't that count for something?Yes, but when I think back to the time I first casually strolled into quora, I remember simply selecting a few very generic topics that first popped into my mind. I was more concerned about getting to where I could have a look at what the place actually looks like. Assuming that newcomers will not want to devote time in customizing their feed with specific pertinent interests until they've checked out the place is also, i feel, a reasonable first guess.The best quora can do for regular users without compromising on its appeal to the prospective Quorans, is to provide the functionality and flexibility to tailor one's feed as desired. Though much more can be done in this direction, I think in essence, this is very much there. One must realize that Quora aims at a much broader user base than for instance Wiki Answers. If you do get hooked, you are more likely to take the trouble of pruning your feed than the fellow who did not stay.That being said I would welcome a section like Best of Quora... which would serve the purpose of showcasing Quora to newcomers and keeping the old faithful entertained whenever they want to peek out of the window of their pruned Quora feed...

Not specifically addressing New York . . . but your question actually is broader than that.Can rental agreements require a minimum term of occupancy? Yes. They all do. That’s the term of the lease, whether it’s for 6 months, a year, or something else. If you break your lease (for instance, leave before the lease is up), then you put your security deposit at risk. Further, the landlord can come after you for any losses that might not be covered by the lease. That’s how leases work.Plus, a growing number of jurisdictions are imposing minimum lease terms to prevent a rental unit from being used as an AirBNB. Condo associations, coops, and landlords are also imposing such limits.Could they raise the rent every month? The rent can’t be raised during the course of a lease unless the lease specifically says it can be. For example, if you rent a property for 1 year at $2,000 a month—and you both sign—then the rent can’t be raised for a year. There are some multi-year leases (let’s say a 2-year lease) where the lease itself might say that the rental amount beginning in year 2 will be $2,100. Or it might say that the rent will be adjusted upward by the rise in the Consumer Price Index. In those cases, the increase is built into the lease, and that’s legal. Your rent couldn’t be raised every month unless you were on a month-to-month lease.Could they change the lease terms? No. It’s the same as the monthly rent. It’s consistent throughout the term of the lease unless the lease itself says that the terms will change.The tenant is bound to stay? No more or less so than the landlord is bound to rent to the tenant. It’s a bilateral (2-say) agreement. The lease stays in effect. OK, the tenant has agreed to stay for a year. He/she is bound to stay. But, equally, the landlord has agreed to rent to the tenant for a year. He/she is also bound by the agreement.

WHOA! You may have a BIG problem. When you started, are you certain you did not fill in a W-4 form? Are you certain that your employer doesn’t have your SS#? If that’s the case, I would be alarmed. Do you have paycheck stubs showing how they calculated your withholding? ( BTW you are entitled to those under the law, and if you are not receiving them, I would demand them….)If your employer is just giving you random checks with no calculation of your wages and withholdings, you have a rogue employer. They probably aren’t payin in what they purport to withhold from you.