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 owners and their boards naturally reached new levels. One of the tools used to engage Full Article…
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Halts Airbnb Abuses by Unit Owner
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…
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…
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…
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…
Adam Leitman Bailey: Building a New Kind of Real Estate Law Firm
Attorney at Law Magazine sat down with New York real estate attorney Adam Leitman Bailey, the founder and managing partner of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. to discuss his career. AALM: What drew you to a career in the law? ALB: Since I was a child, I have fought against injustice on my own behalf and on behalf Full Article…
Landlord Laws, Tenant Moratoriums; Where We Are Now
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 their rents in spite of the eviction moratoriums. These moratoriums, in one form or another, Full Article…
New York’s Commercial Lease Defenses to Paying Rent
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov TreimanSeptember 2020 ew 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 commercial lease, there are three traditional theories Full Article…