The Fairfield Tenants Association is an independent, tenant-led organization created to connect residents of Fairfield apartment communities across Long Island.
Our purpose is simple: to give Fairfield tenants a collective voice.
One tenant reporting a maintenance problem, loss of an amenity, unexplained charge, construction disruption, security-deposit dispute, or communication failure can easily be treated as an isolated complaint. When residents from multiple Fairfield communities document similar experiences, patterns become much harder to ignore.
There is strength in numbers.
The Association is free to join. Our goals are to connect tenants, document recurring concerns, share information about tenant rights, identify patterns across Fairfield communities, and, when appropriate, bring documented concerns to Fairfield management, government agencies, elected officials, or other appropriate organizations.
Fairfield Properties is a major Long Island residential landlord. According to the New York Attorney General, Fairfield owned and operated 196 rental buildings containing 13,620 units in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties at the time of the Attorney General's 2023 action.
Fairfield has previously been the subject of a significant investigation by the New York State Office of the Attorney General.
In January 2023, Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office had determined Fairfield "routinely violated several housing and tenant protection laws" concerning security deposits. The Attorney General reported that Fairfield improperly withheld full or partial security deposits, failed to provide required written itemizations of deductions, conducted certain move-out inspections without tenants present, and failed to give tenants opportunities required by law to address conditions before deductions were imposed.
The resulting agreement required Fairfield to return $422,598.21 to 899 former tenants, pay $90,000 in penalties, change its practices, train employees, and provide compliance certifications to the Attorney General.
This history demonstrates why organized tenants, careful documentation, and communication with government agencies can matter.