July 1st, 2006 A recent Kings County court ruling may help you avoid liability under the city’s sidewalk law (Section 7-210 of the city’s Administrative Code). That law requires owners to maintain the sidewalks abutting their buildings in a safe condition and makes owners of buildings with four or more apartments exclusively liable for any Full Article…
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When Is It Company? When a Crowd?, New York Law Journal
By: Adam Leitman Bailey & Dov Treiman December 22nd, 2011 With Governor Paterson’s recent announcement that New York would accord administrative recognition to same-sex unions Adam Leitman Bailey solemnized in jurisdictions that recognize such unions, notably in every jurisdiction with which New York shares a border except for Pennsylvania, the focus is once again placed Full Article…
Deducting Cost of Repainting Purple Walls From Security Deposit, Apartment Law Insider
By: Adam Leitman Bailey July 1st, 2006 Q. One of my tenants moved out of her apartment, leaving behind walls that she had painted purple. Can I deduct the cost of repainting the walls from this tenant’s security deposit? A. Yes, says Manhattan attorney Adam Leitman Bailey. In general, if a tenant moves out of Full Article…
Call All Monies Owed by Tenant “Additional Rent” to Speed Up Non-Payment Proceedings, Commercial Lease Law Insider
By: Adam Leitman Bailey March 1st, 2006 Many owner and tenant lease forms we’ve looked at have a big loophole: They don’t classify all of the tenant’s lease costs—other than base rent (and for retail tenants, percentage rent)—as “additional rent.” Typically, a lease requires the tenant to pay many costs in addition to its base Full Article…
The Inquiring Mind: Buying Building with Separate Heating Plant, New York Housing Journal
Q. I’m thinking of buying a building that doesn’t have a separate heating plant. Instead, each apartment has individual electric baseboards. The tenants pay for the electricity for these baseboard units. Will I be able to continue to use that system? A. The law requires that multiple dwellings (that is, buildings with three or more Full Article…
A New Direction: More Decisions Favor Landlords Over Tenants, New York Law Journal
By: Adam Leitman Bailey July 30th, 2008 Without any riots, bloodshed, or major legislative changes, the overwhelming number of anti-landlord courts and decisions of the late 1970s to the mid-1990s have given way to new trends slowly wearing away at the rock of procedural and substantive protections meant to enable tenants to keep their tenancies Full Article…
Take Six Steps to Reduce Risks of Self-Help Eviction, Professional Office Building Management
By: Adam Leitman Bailey June 1st, 2006 Many owners believe that the only way to get rid of a holdover tenant or a tenant that violates its lease is to sue to evict it, says New York attorney Adam Leitman Bailey. But, depending on what state law and tenants’ leases say, many owners may have Full Article…
“Discrimination: How Tenant Complaints Can Derail Eviction,” Finkelstein & Ferrara’s Landlord-Tenant Practice Report
By: Adam Leitman Bailey Many owners, managers and co-op boards assume that anti-discrimination laws apply only to screening and selecting new tenants and shareholders. In actuality, though, these Federal, State and local laws apply to all aspects of the landlord-tenant relationship. A tenant or shareholder may file a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Full Article…
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