Jeffrey Turkel

May 04, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, warn owners to beware: "The four-year rule will not protect you if the status, rather than the rent, of the apartment is primarily at issue."

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

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January 05, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, report that the Appellate Division, First Department has unanimously upheld a DHCR regulation that requires tenants to retain proof that they have timely answered an owner's petition to luxury deregulate a rent stabilized apartment.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

9 minute read

May 07, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, write that under the Rent Stabilization Law and Code, the "legal" rent for an apartment is the rent charged on the base date, plus applicable Rent Guidelines Board increases. Owners, however, are free to charge tenants a "preferential rent," i.e., a rent below the legal rent. However, once an owner charged a lower, preferential rent, all future rents for that apartment would be based on the lower amount.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

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March 05, 2002 | New York Law Journal

In its recent decision in Brusco v. Armstrong , 1 a unanimous Appellate Term, First Department held that the "20-year rule" whereby rent regulated tenants cannot be evicted on owner occupancy grounds if they have been a tenant in the building for 20 years or more did not apply to rent stabilized tenants in New York City. The decision resolves a split of authority among the lower courts.

By Warren A. Estis And Jeffrey Turkel

11 minute read

November 03, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding member at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, analyze a recent case which could potentially impact thousands of rent regulated tenants who split their time between Florida and New York.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

9 minute read

July 01, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, write: One of the primary features of the Rent Stabilization Law ? at least for owners ? is the rent increase awarded for an Individual Apartment Improvement. IAIs relate to new equipment and improvements that an owner, usually upon vacancy, adds to an apartment, such as new kitchen cabinets, a new stove or refrigerator, or a complete bathroom renovation. In contrast, Major Capital Improvements concern the installation of new building systems, such as a new elevator, roof or boiler.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

11 minute read

March 01, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding member of Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, analyze the recent decision in Rizzo v. New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, where the Court of Appeals affirmed the First Department, holding that DHCR properly refused to consider evidence pertaining to events that occurred one day after DHCR had issued a final order granting the landlord's partial eviction application.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

9 minute read

January 05, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In their Rent Regulation column, Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, analyzes recent cases limiting loft owners' ability to collect rents and increasing the duration of their exposure for rent overcharges.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

8 minute read

May 02, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, write that landlords and their rent regulated tenants frequently litigate disputes that are settled by a stipulation, "so ordered" or otherwise. In two recent cases, however, the Appellate Division, First Department held that such settlement were, in whole or in part, void as against public policy.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

8 minute read

November 04, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, write that with its Oct. 22, 2009 decision in Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P., the New York State Court of Appeals raised many questions whose answers will be determined in the coming months and years, both in the Roberts litigation and, absent consolidation of some kind, in hundreds, if not thousands, of individual DHCR, Civil Court and Supreme Court proceedings.

By Warren A. Estis and Jeffrey Turkel

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