In NYC and SF, you can't generally rent for a fixed term: "Can my landlord evict me and use my stabilized apartment for his or her family, and how many apartme

In NYC and SF, you can't generally rent for a fixed term: "Can my landlord evict me and use my stabilized apartment for his or her family, and how many apartments in the building can the landlord take? One of the advantages of being a rent stabilized tenant is the statutory right to renew your lease." http://www.nycrgb.org/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html http://www.nycrgb.org/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html Once you lease a unit you essentially hold weakly transferable long term property rights to the unit. You also own, via local zoning regulations, the partial right to prevent neighbors from doing new things with their property.