Aquino Colonial Funeral Home v. Pittari

BROCHIN, J.A.D.

The Anti-Eviction Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1, limits a landlord’s right to evict a residential tenant from

any house, building, mobile home or land in a mobile home park or tenement leased for residential purposes, other than owner-occupied premises with not more than two rental units or a hotel, motel or other guest house or part thereof rented to a transient guest or seasonal tenant____

The landlord can evict the tenant only for those reasons which the statute defines as “good cause.”

In the present case, the trial court held that the landlord had established “good cause” within…