— Per Curiam.
In October 1988, Thomas Groves, Elizabeth Carey and her children (hereinafter the tenants) began their occupancy of a lot in McPerry Estates Mobile Home Park (hereinafter the park) in the Town of Guilford, Chenango County. The tenants had a verbal month-to-month periodic tenancy. At the time the tenants commenced their tenancy, the park was owned by Elaine Boeck. Respondents purchased the park from Boeck in March 1989. In April 1989, the tenants’ septic system began to malfunction, which eventually resulted in the spilling of raw sewage both inside and outside of the tenants’ mobile home. The tenants promptly notified respondents of the septic system problem and, upon respondents’ failure to remedy the problem, hired someone at their own expense to try to fix the septic system. These repairs also failed to improve the situation. Therefore, the tenants notified appropriate State and local agencies. The tenants also began withholding their rent. Subsequently, on June 19, 1989, the tenants received a notice to quit from respondents which stated that they had to leave the premises within 30 days because the tenants allegedly failed to keep up the maintenance of the cesspool on their lot. In August 1989, a shotgun was fired at midnight by an unknown individual outside the tenants’ home, which the tenants believed was an attempt by respondents to intimidate them into leaving the site.