Introduction The most talked about recent case in the real estate industry is Regina Metro v. DHCR (2020). In it, New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, set bright line standards in rent overcharge cases in rent stabilized apartments. Unfortunately, one of those lines was not bright enough. The question the Court of Appeals Full Article…
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About Dov Treiman
Mr. Treiman chairs the Landlord-Tenant Civil Litigation Practice and is a partner at the firm. As one of the leading authorities in the landlord-tenant bar, Mr. Treiman’s drafting of appellate briefs, legal documents and motions has increased the ability of the firm to garner better results for its clients.
Mr. Treiman was involved in private practice for fifteen years before devoting his principal time to the collecting, editing, writing, and publishing of scholarly research materials in landlord-tenant law. His writings include numerous articles in the New York Law Journal and many articles in the Landlord-Tenant Practice Reporter.
Mr. Treiman was the Founding Editor and Contributor of a great many articles to Landlord Tenant Monthly (4 volumes); Editor and Commentator, The Housing Court Reporter (24 volumes); Editor and Commentator, Treiman’s Commentaries (3 volumes); Editor, The Housing Court Reporter Chronological Annotator (3 volumes); Editor, The Housing Court Reporter Plaintiff-Defendant Tables (2 volumes); Editor, The Housing Court Reporter Digest (7 volumes); Editor and Commentator, Treiman’s New York Landlord Tenant Statutes Annotated (3 volumes); Editor and Commentator, Treiman’s Rent Stabilization Code Annotated (3 volumes); Editor and Author, Treiman’s Trial Manual; Editor and Principal Author, Treiman’s Encyclopedia and Dictionary (2 volumes); Editor and Commentator, Treiman’s Leading Cases (2 volumes); Editor, Public Documents of the DHCR; Editor, The Loft Board Reporter (18 volumes); Editor, The New York City Administrative Law Reporter (3 volumes); Editor, Landlord Tenant Appellate Reporter (7 volumes).
Of these, undoubtedly, the most important is the Housing Court Reporter, the standard work used by all the New York City courts and all quality practitioners of landlord-tenant law to search through some 50,000 cases for applicable precedents for appellate briefs, legal documents and motions.
Mr. Treiman was also commissioned by the State of New York to produce special editions of several of these works for their use in chambers by each of the 51 Housing Judges.
State Legislature Restores Rights of Private Cooperatives That Were Formally Prohibited Under the House Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019
On June 14, 2019, the Governor signed into law the most sweeping changes to landlord tenant laws of a generation. While tenant advocates saw this law as a major victory, landlords decried it as heavily destructive of the profitability of private land ownership. Particularly hard hit were landlords outside of New York City who had Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Finds COVID-19 Relief for Landlords Trying to Court New Tenants
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…
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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