One of the problems facing landlords throughout NYC is the rapidly rising vacancy rate because of COVID-19. In spite of the rent stabilization laws, landlords are now competing with each other to offer their tenants better and better deals just to keep them or to entice them to rent an apartment. With the amendments to Full Article…
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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Accelerates the Issuance of a Certificate of No Harassment During COVID-19
Since Certificate of No Harassment Unit of the Housing Preservation and Development of the City of New York was inundated with hundreds of thousands owners’ applications for Certificates of No Harassment pre – pandemic that one can only imagine what the grinding halt of the COVID-19 lockdown meant for owners waiting for a determination on Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Leads and Guides Owner on How to Legally Secure Possession of a Commercial Space During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to a plethora of executive orders and judicial memoranda that prohibit owners from enforcing their contractual rights against commercial tenants in default of their lease. Many New York City owners, in the exercise of good business sense and compassion, worked out deals with tenants during these harsh economic times. However, an owner’s Full Article…
Eviction During A Pandemic When Evictions Are Prohibited
When Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C.’s client came for help, it was faced with a tenant who had illegally AirBnB’d his apartment to someone believed to be dealing drugs from the apartment with no intent ever to leave. The tenant of record having returned home to Spain, there was no pressure to apply to him and Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey P.C. Wins Coop’s Right To Retain Multimillion-Dollar Security Deposit post-HSTPA
In one of the first tests of the 2019 Rent Law’s provisions restricting security deposits and prepaid rent, Adam Leitman Bailey P.C. won for an extreme upscale cooperative in Manhattan, the right to keep the multimillion-dollar, multiyear prepaid maintenance they had negotiated from a foreign national with an unsavory international reputation. Arguing that the prepaid maintenance Full Article…
Buyouts, Evictions, Negotiations, and Detective Work Lead to the Ground Work to Build a Large Condominium
Adam Leitman Bailey P.C. spent almost a year and a half buying-out tenants and evicting tenants who had violated their lease agreement for a large rent-regulated building site in Brooklyn. These tenants’ violations included illegally subletting, not using their premises as their primary residences, or chronically paying their rent late. The property owner’s goal was Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Obtain Residential Eviction During COVID and Permission to Use Self-Help
The team at Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. (ALBPC) continues to find creative ways to assist landlord clients in the wake of the nonfunctional New York Housing Courts. In a recent case, a landlord-client learned that his tenant, in violation of the lease and New York law, had been illegally subletting his apartment through Airbnb to Full Article…
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