Governor Andrew Cuomo is warning landlords not to take advantage of any vulnerable tenants, should rent regulation laws expire tomorrow, which is looking increasingly likely. 

So far no new deal is in place.

Cuomo is telling landlords in a letter to stick with those regulations, until new legislation is passed, quote, 

"Landlords who improperly attempt to use any brief lapse in the rent stabilization laws to gouge tenants on rents, engage in deceptive business practices, or threaten tenants with eviction due to the lapse, will face enforcement actions to the full extent of the law," he says in the letter.

While the state Senate proposed an eight-year extension of the laws Friday night, the governor says major improvements still need to made to further protect tenants.

The current legislative session ends Wednesday.

Meanwhile, other elected officials are telling tenants not to panic.

"We want to send tenants a clear message not to panic that they have leases," said State Senator Adriano Espaillat at a rally in Washington Heights Sunday.

Some are still worried, though.

"I am scared not only for me I'm scared for my children who also live in rent stabilized apartments," said Washington Heights resident Diana Cruz. "You need to help us. I've been in this neighborhood when it was drug infested. With the blackouts in the looting and everything, I stood by my neighborhood."

Cuomo says he plans to keep senate and assembly members in Albany for a special session until they either approve new laws or extend the current ones.