Revenue or Reduction

By: Liz Lent January 1st, 2012 Budgeting is never easy, not for a family of four and certainly not for a co-op or condo community of hundreds or thousands of residents. That fact is made all the more difficult by the lingering effects of the recession, which continues to wreak havoc with our confidence as  Full Article…

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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Defeats Claim of Adverse Possession for Title Company

In McMillan v. Village Plaza Homes, Inc., et. al., Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. won a Decision and Order granting summary judgment in favor of the insureds, in defeating Plaintiff’s claim of title by adverse possession to an eleven inch strip of land on the southerly boundary line of the insureds’ property in Queens County, New York.  Full Article…

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Litigating Against the New Transient Use Statute: The First Trials

As Environmental Control Board litigators, we know that every day is a new battle and we can never predict the result of a case, no matter how good the facts may be.  And then of course, there’s the old saying that no one beats City Hall. Well, for us, we had to go higher and  Full Article…

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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Defeats Fraud Claim; Protects CitiMortgage as a Secured Lender

In defending the interests of CitiMortgage, Inc. and MERS before the Honorable Arthur M. Schack, J.S.C. in a New York Supreme Court, Kings County, deed forgery case, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. negotiated and procured a so-ordered agreement declaring CitiMortgage’s mortgage to be a valid lien secured by a property in Brooklyn, despite allegations of a  Full Article…

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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Protects Home Loan Investment Bank, F.S.B. As First Lien Holder

In Home Loan Investment Bank v. Lauday Inc. and Aretha Barrett Realty Corp., et. al., Case No. 1:09-cv-03088-ERK in Federal Court, Eastern District, Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. negotiated a so-ordered stipulation declaring Home Loan Investment Bank’s 1.435 Million Dollar mortgage to be a valid, first priority interest secured by a series of properties in Brooklyn, despite certain counterclaims  Full Article…

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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Defends Commercial Property Owner From Predatory Lender’s Bad Faith Foreclosure Suit

Adam Leitman Bailey P.C., achieved an instant victory for its client, a borrower under a commercial loan, as a New York Supreme Court Judge, ruling from the bench, denied a lender’s bid to appoint a receiver for the borrower’s commercial property and simultaneously dismissed the lender’s foreclosure suit. The victory was the result of a  Full Article…

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Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. Expedites Construction of a Brooklyn Restaurant

Property owners in Brooklyn applied to the Department of Buildings seeking to construct and open a restaurant on Third Avenue spanning three adjacent lots.  For this project, however, the Building Code required a second means of egress to be established between the lots. The property owners’ architect attempted to create and record documents into the  Full Article…

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Q&A: Landlord Raises Garage Rent

By: Jay Romano November 4th, 2012 Q I have a rent-stabilized apartment with a garage space in New York City. For my upcoming lease, the landlord wants to apply the rent guideline increase of 2 percent or $20, whichever is greater, to the current rent for the garage. A neighbor who rents storage space in the  Full Article…

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