Every landlord has a dead tenant story. “Remember the lady in 4C with the handwritten notes on the lease?” one recently asked his attorney, Noah Levenson. “Awful smell coming from her apartment. We think she’s dead and decomposing. What do we do?” Levenson gave his standard answer: “Don’t go in. Call 911. Tell them you think there’s a corpse.” When someone dies in a home, the police stay with the body until an authorized entity removes it. Usually it’s a funeral home called by the family. But for a tenant without any relatives to step up, the Office of Medical […]

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