Urban living usually means sharing walls, ceilings, floors, hallways and lobbies with neighbors. This close living and sharing of space may lead to disputes between neighbors. In co-op and condominium buildings, the aggrieved party often looks to the board of directors or building manager to solve or alleviate the problem at the source of the Full Article…
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How to Handle City-Issued Violation Hearing, Apartment Law Insider
By Adam Leitman Bailey If you get a city issued violation from certain city agencies, such as the Department of Buildings (DOB), the NYC Fire Department, or the NYC Department of Sanitation, and you want to fight it, you’ll need to appear at the Environmental Control Board (ECB) for a hearing. Here’s what you’ll need Full Article…
Negotiating Laundry Room Contracts, The Cooperator
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman It’s amazing how good building owners and managers are at increasing and garnering revenue from residential tenants while at the same time leaving themselves to the will and whim of laundry room operators who impose contracts lasting for decades with automatic renewals, rights of first refusal and other Full Article…
Q & A: Closing Question, The Cooperator
By Guy Arad Q. I have an accepted offer on a condo in Manhattan, and I have a letter of commitment from my lender. Before proceeding to submit my application to the board, I was instructed by the managing agency that submission of tax returns, payroll stubs, and bank statements are necessary to process the Full Article…
Q & A: Is That Fair? The Cooperator
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. My question is pretty straightforward: can a board member hold both the title of president and secretary concurrently? Article VI Paragraph 1 of our bylaws, entitled “Officers” states that “The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, one or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer” but our Full Article…
Q & A: Shareholder Preventing Sale, The Cooperator
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. We have a shareholder who has posted notices around our co-op that condemn the co-op and the board. They are in plain view of potential buyers. When the buyers read these notices, they refuse to even look at the available unit that we have. The real estate agent is embarrassed Full Article…
Q & A: Conservative Easements, The Cooperator
By Guy Arad Q. What is a conservation easement? What are the tax advantages to a conservation easement? Can a condo or co-op vote to place a conservation easement? — Curious in New York A. According to Guy Arad, Esq. of the Law Offices of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. in Manhattan: “An easement is a Full Article…
Q & A: When Maintenance Is Long in Arrears, The New York Times
By Dov Treiman Q. I was fascinated by the response to a question in this column on Jan. 15, about the circumstances under which elderly tenants can break a lease. In our co-op in Queens there has been an ongoing dispute between the board and the son of a shareholder who is in a nursing Full Article…
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