With orders to stay indoors, and residents working at home and boards tasked with deciding on how to run their buildings making important decisions on how to avoid spreading the deadly virus, heightened tensions and heated moments between shareholders and
Continue Reading Co-op and Condo Owners’ Right To Inspect: An Update
This pandemic and the government’s response to it have forced America into a new economy that will be painful for the staid businesses of yesterday.
At the same time, this may be the most extraordinary time to open the right
Continue Reading How to start a business in a pandemic and thrive in a post-pandemic world
In 2020 the number of homeowners who have fallen at least three months behind on their mortgage payments has increased 250 percent
As federal and state moratoriums blanket the country, more Americans have fallen behind on their mortgage payments at
Continue Reading Foreclosure in your future? Here are 4 ways to save your home from that fate
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
Continue Reading Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Obtain Residential Eviction During COVID and Permission to Use Self-Help
In a city as populous as New York, homelessness has been a problem for years. What can be done to fix it? New York’s top Real Estate Lawyers share their insights.
In July 2020, there were 58,089 homeless people who
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Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss the Court of Appeals decision “Trustees of Columbia v. D’Agostino,” where the court handed down a 4-3 decision with a new interpretation of the law of liquidated damages with regard to surrender agreements.
Continue Reading An Unsettling Decision for Liquidated Damages in Settlement Agreements
Fifteen years after their article, “Self Help Evictions: The Neglected Commercial Remedy,” Adam Leitman Bailey and John Desiderio address and update the law on the self-help remedy that enables commercial landlords to regain possession of leased premises from tenants in
Continue Reading Self-Help Eviction in 2020/2021
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. published an article in the fall about the creative methods its firm implemented to conduct closings during the spring and summer months. The transactional world continues to face many challenges with the increasing rise of new
Continue Reading Update: Creative Methods for Closing During COVID-19
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman
The Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. landlord-tenant attorneys have been navigating the constant flow of changing laws and Executive Orders under COVID19 to serve tenants with notices and bring tenants to court, getting landlords
Continue Reading Landlord Laws, Tenant Moratoriums; Where We Are Now
New York is in one of its worst depressions since the American Revolution. Few landlords and commercial tenants have been completely immune from the governmentally imposed economic shutdown and COVID-19’s wrath. Not including what may have been negotiated in a
Continue Reading Reviewing New York’s Commercial Lease Defenses to Paying Rent
