The Board of a Condominium engaged Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. after one of its units owners repeatedly listed his apartment on Airbnb, and other transient use websites, for short-term rentals, in violation of New York law and the governing documents of the building. Specifically, § 27-2004.a.8(a) of the Housing Maintenance Code, expressly prohibits transient, short-term Full Article…
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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…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Saves and Secures Life-Saving Facility While Stopping Work on Development Project
In New York City, some buildings are sacrosanct. They may not be good looking or special from the outside but what they do on the inside helps save lives. When Adam Leitman Bailey attorneys received the emergency call and ran to this building, upon arriving we were shuffled into an office and briefed on the 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. Obtains Complete Agreement Between Landlord, Commercial Tenant, and Landlord Shareholders to Resolve Dispute Over Lease Renewal and Negotiation of a New Rent Schedule
In 2017, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. was approached by the President of a Landlord close corporation, whose shareholders (including the president) are all cousins, to assist in negotiating a new lease with the present Tenant of an 18 story building in mid-Manhattan, whose management had missed the deadline for exercising the Tenant’s right to renew 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…
Bet The Skyscraper Negotiation
Between Covid-19 and the government’s shut down of the City of New York and its real estate, the disaster that hit New York had never been replicated before. For the skyscraper that is the subject of this case study, almost 50 percent of the commercial tenants stopped paying rent or completely moved out of the Full Article…
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