If you don't break the law (hard stop) then there's nothing further to discuss
Otherwise it sounds like the reisha is lechatchila and the seifa is bedieved...
I love it.
We don’t break the law, we utilize it in the right way.
NYS is choking the Landlords, rent stabilization, the new fine law, and what ends up happening is the poor often lowest class pays there rent in full, and the upper class Manhattan tenants don’t pay because there is no court, and we could always switch apartments with so many vacancies. Now they gave out a benefit and who is using it? The upper class because the lower class paid all up because they were scared of eviction, even when they didn’t have the money to pay for bread.