By Dan M. Clark | January 13, 2020
"It was a call to ask if I could come in and explain the law, being a landlord-tenant attorney, to try to get everybody on the same page," Cain said of one call she got from a judge.
By Jane Wester | January 10, 2020
The tenants claimed that Dukler and Rikud Realty have spent years scrambling paperwork to deceive the state's Homes and Community Renewal agency, which froze the rent, according to the complaint.
By Dan M. Clark | January 7, 2020
Each case dealt with how much those tenants should be awarded after their landlords unlawfully deregulated their apartments while simultaneously receiving tax benefits.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Scott E. Mollen | January 7, 2020
In his Realty Law Digest, Scott E. Mollen discusses the recent landlord-tenant cases "Maddicks v. Big City Properties," and "Varley v. Elk."
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Darcy McLean Meals | December 31, 2019
Sharing simple information about the law and the eviction process can help tenants buy time to relocate or to negotiate a different outcome with their landlords.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joshua Kopelowitz and Anthony J. Virga | December 26, 2019
There is an open question as to whether a guarantor's promise to perform obligations other than the payment of the principal's debts disqualifies the guaranty from the purview of CPLR 3213. This article explores how that question is answered in the Second and First Departments.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Francis J. Lane | December 24, 2019
The New York state legislature enacted the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 this past June. The amendments that it made to the Rent Stabilization Law now require an attorney faced with a rent overcharge claim to solve at least two sets of mathematical word problems when evaluating the claim. This article is one dread-stricken lawyer's search for a step-by-step approach to dealing with those rent overcharge math problems.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Scott E. Mollen | December 17, 2019
Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses "U.S. v. Lax," where the court found the decedent's wife benefitted directly from a sham transactions to shield assets from the IRS. Also discussed is "N.Y.C. Hous. Auth. v. Various Tenants, Number II," and "Zagorski v. Makarewicz."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Massimo F. D'Angelo | December 13, 2019
The HSTPA's radical rental overcharge reforms have fundamentally altered not only the practice of real estate law going forward, but the real estate market, as well.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Scott E. Mollen | December 10, 2019
In his Realty Law Digest, Scott E. Mollen discusses two commercial landlord-tenant cases: "151 Realty LLC v. Alava," and "Milltex Distrib. LLC v. Cameron Stewart Inc," and a foreclosure case: "NYCTL 1998-2 Trust v. Alanis Realty LLC."
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