LANDLORD/TENANT LAW
27-2-0443 East Coast The Fairways Apartments, LLC v. Leach, App. Div. (per curiam) (15 pp.) Defendants appeal from an order of the Special Civil Part granting judgment of possession to plaintiff, their landlord, on its complaint for eviction under N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(i), which alleged defendants refused to accept reasonable changes in the terms of their lease at lease renewal. Defendants argue on appeal that the "revised" lease, which incorporated some of the suggestions made by the trial judge, is still unreasonable. Defendants contend that the trial judge never addressed several of the changes they challenged, and that the revisions he suggested did not obviate the problems they originally raised. The appellate panel reverses and remands due to the failure of the trial judge to make findings of fact and set forth his conclusions of law. Not only did the trial judge fail to address every provision in the proposed new lease challenged by defendants, but also the trial judge failed to explain his conclusions by relating them to the standards of reasonableness governing N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(i).
