By Adam Leitman Bailey When you buy a newly constructed property, you hope to live in a home with the most technologically advanced electrical, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems, and the latest appliances, fixtures, and plumbing. You also want the advantage of owning brand-new big-ticket items, such as the boiler and roof. The replacement or repair Full Article…
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The Ins, Outs and All Arounds of New Construction, Divisions of Ubell Enterprises
By Adam Leitman Bailey When you buy a newly constructed property, your hope is to live in a home with the most technologically advanced electrical and ventilation systems, the latest appliances, the best fixtures, and perfect plumbing. You also want the advantage of owning brand-new big –ticket items such as the boiler and roof. The Full Article…
Q & A: Noise, the Bane of City Living, The New York Times
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. My wife and I own an apartment in a Midtown co-op, and one of our living-room walls abuts the building next door. About nine months ago, we heard sounds of hammering and drilling through the wall. Later, we began hearing the sound of a television set, doors slamming and voices Full Article…
Q & A: Breaking the Mold, The Cooperator
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. I live in a prewar cooperative in Manhattan. As a result of a number of leaks during the past few years from either the apartment upstairs or pipes from inside the building’s walls, a black wet substance has filled part of my bathroom and bedroom walls and ceiling. When attempting Full Article…
Adam Bailey Gives Advice on Pet Policy in Habitat Magazine’s 2002 Attorney Survey, Habitat Magazine
ADVICE ON PET POLICY This has been an active and exciting year to be rendering cooperatives legal advice. The second highest court in the land gave incredible deference to cooperative boards by determining that the courts are prohibited from inquiring into actions of corporate directors taken in good faith and in the exercise of honest Full Article…
Q&A: Ripped Off … Who’s Responsible? The Cooperator
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. A Shareholder in our building claims that some valuables he kept in a storage room in the basement of our co-op were stolen after the lock to his storage space was allegedly broken. He is threatening to sue the co-op for “the failure to properly secure the premises.” He is Full Article…
Q & A: Co-ops, Condos and Mail Slots, The New York Times
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. In condos and co-ops that have mail distributed into open slots by building staff, what regulations, if any, govern the handling of non-Postal Service mail? Do house rules alone dictate whether residents can leave noncommercial messages for other residents? Can quantity or frequency be restricted? Does it matter whether messages Full Article…
Q & A: When a Building Co-op Commandeers a Terrace, The New York Times
By Adam Leitman Bailey Q. Our terrace is the staging area for work on the co-op’s facade, rendering it virtually unusable. Are we entitled to a maintenance reduction? A. Adam Leitman Bailey,a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that while a co-op’s governing documents might give a shareholder exclusive use of a terrace, the typical proprietary Full Article…
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