After a coordinated campaign of harassment against a Co-Op board, attempts to ignore and undermine that board’s legitimate actions, and efforts to hold illegitimate meetings to unseat lawfully elected board members, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. successfully defended the board’s rights, squashed the illegitimate actions, and ensured that the board can carry on with its duty Full Article…
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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Prevails on Motion to Vacate Tolling of Statute of Limitations
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. successfully moved to vacate the tolling of the statute of limitations on potential claims against a client, as provided for in prior orders of the court, persuading the presiding judge that he had acted beyond his authority in having earlier tolled the statute of the limitations. In 2024, the New York Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., Obtains Dismissal of HP Proceedings and Wins Access Holdover Proceeding Against Nightmare Rent Controlled Tenant
In New York City, residential leases generally require tenants to provide their landlords access to apartments to inspect, or to perform needed repairs and improvements. The Housing Maintenance Code prohibits tenants from refusing an owner or their agents access to an apartment to make repairs or improvements or to inspect the apartment to determine compliance Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., Wins Appeal, Forecloses on Property Despite Statue of Limitation Claims to Defeat Action.
It is amazing the lengths some borrowers will go to avoid paying their mortgages while living an a home for free. Mortgages are recorded in the normal course. In this case, however, after the closing where the borrower executed a note and mortgage for $600,00.00 the title closer never recorded the mortgage. To correct this Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Successfully Vacates a Default Judgment Imposed by the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) and Obtains a New Hearing Date for Client
The Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) is New York City’s administrative law court. The OATH Hearings Division conducts hearings on summonses issued by twenty-five New York City enforcement agencies for alleged violations of law or City rules. Such enforcement agencies include the Departments of Buildings, Sanitation, Environmental Protection, Consumer and Worker Protection, and Health and Full Article…
The Appellate Division, First Department Declared That the Apartment Unit’s Purchase/Sales Price Could Not Be The Sole Factor in Rejecting a Purchaser
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., was retained to represent an elderly couple who wished to sell their cooperative in Manhattan so that the husband could receive treatment elsewhere. While the couple found a buyer willing to purchase the unit for its fair market value, the application was rejected by the cooperative board because it has set Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Affirmed by Second Department in Action To Record Duplicate Mortgage
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. was retained by a lender to record a mortgage in the chain of title to a property in Brooklyn, New York, where the original mortgage that was executed by the borrower was not recorded and subsequently lost or misplaced. In an effort to avoid her obligations on the mortgage, the borrower Full Article…
Restructuring a Deal that Straddled the Rent Laws
In 2014, several years before the 2019 rent laws were passed, our now client (we did not represent her at the time), as Landlord/Seller, entered into a long-term Lease, with an option to purchase, of a rent-stabilized property in Harlem. Purchase option price was $4.3mm. Although the purchase option had not been exercised at the Full Article…
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