Top Legal Issues - Nightmares & War Stories - What You Can do When Things go (Really, Really) Wrong Seminar - The Cooperator Expo New Jersey

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Keeping a Lid on Legal Costs

What Can Boards Do?

Handling Conflicts

When Should the Board Intervene?

Why Am I Being Deposed?

Unit Owner Depositions in Transition Litigations – a Primer

Conflict in Client Communities

What's the Manager's Role?

East Flatbush Co-op Mired in Legal Drama Receives $11M Loan: Report

The Mitchell-Lama Co-op Has Experienced Internal Turmoil

Managing Conflict

When Boards and Residents Take Sides

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7/2/2020 Carl Icahn’s daughter sells NYC duplex she never lived in at a loss—New York Post

Billionaire Carl Icahn’s daughter Michelle and her husband Michael Nevin just sold their Upper West Side duplex at a loss — closing the deal during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
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7/2/2020 The Return of Home Renovations—The New York Times

Gail Eisen was in the middle of combining two apartments in a co-op building on Sutton Place in late March, when the coronavirus prompted the shutdown of all nonessential construction projects for more than two months.
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7/2/2020 Trump denounces ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural outside Trump Tower—Boston.com

President Donald Trump criticized New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to paint a Black Lives Matter mural on the street outside Trump Tower, saying the effort will antagonize police and will be “denigrating this luxury Avenue.”
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7/2/2020 New York Apartment Sales Plunged in 2Q, but Summer Brings Hope—The Wall Street Journal

As the worst quarter in the Manhattan apartment market on record drew to a close last week, broker Bill Kowalczuk saw a glimmer of hope amid the gloom.
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7/2/2020 From Puzzles To Recipes, Real Estate Marketers Are Getting Creative—Forbes

During the first week of Phase Two reopening in New York City, Manhattan new listings were up 97% year over year and up 56% week over week, according to according to real estate market data firm UrbanDigs. However, demand still isn’t meeting supply and contracts signed are down 67% from the same time last year.
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6/30/2020 Why New Yorkers Won’t Actually Move to The Suburbs—I Love the Upper West Side

Since the onset of coronavirus in New York City, there have been countless media reports highlighting New Yorkers fleeing New York City for the suburbs. Once again, the demise of New York City has been greatly exaggerated!
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6/30/2020 NY Landlords Lose Challenge To Cuomo's Eviction Limits—Law360.com

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday rejected a bid by landlords to quash New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's limits on evictions during the COVID-19 crisis, finding the restrictions do not violate landlords' rights under federal law and that the court has no jurisdiction over state law questions they may raise.
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6/30/2020 Can Dog Walkers and Nannies Come Into My Co-op Now?—The New York Times

New York City has begun the slow process of reopening, but that doesn’t mean a return to normal. The next phase will look quite different from the city we knew before the shutdown.
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6/30/2020 More Renters Becoming Second-Home Owners—Mansion Global

Many people are rethinking their living arrangements because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For city dwellers, that often means a move to a more spacious spot.
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6/30/2020 Judges question need for public review of controversial Two Bridges projects—The Real Deal

Two appellate court judges expressed doubt Thursday that four planned Manhattan towers require City Council approval.
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6/30/2020 Pandemic-Emptied Hotels Could Become Affordable Housing, City Officials Suggest—The City

City officials are looking to capitalize on a distressed tourism industry by converting commercial hotels into affordable housing — including creating single room occupancy units known as SROs.
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6/29/2020 Where does Lin-Manuel Miranda live and how big is his house?—Nicki Swift

Along with being the creator and former star of the Broadway smash-hit Hamilton, Tony Award-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda is also the man behind the musical In the Heights, a story that's centered in New York City, which is where he was born and raised. It's also a place that's obviously incredibly special to Miranda.
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6/24/2020 Apartment Showings Return in NYC With New Rules for Covid Era—BloombergQuint

For the last three months, one of the classic New York City real estate rituals was off limits: in-person apartment showings.
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6/23/2020 Co-op and Condo Boards' Secret Litigation Weapon—New York Law Journal

Lawsuits from cooperative shareholders and condominium unit owners opposing their boards’ conduct have become commonplace. When confronted with such challenges to their authority, boards, of course, may defend their position on the merits, or they may seek legal vindication under the Business Judgment Rule.
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6/23/2020 A Moratorium on Evictions Ends, Leaving Thousands of Tenants Fearful—The New York Times

A moratorium on evictions that New York State imposed during the coronavirus pandemic expired over the weekend, raising fears that tens of thousands of residents struggling in the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression will be called into housing courts, which reopened on Monday.
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6/23/2020 New York Passes Mandatory Forbearance Law, Inviting Potential Constitutional Challenge—Lexology

On June 17, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed one of the most far-reaching COVID-19 mortgage assistance state programs yet into law. Affected servicers and lenders will soon need to decide whether they should find a way to comply, or bring a constitutional challenge.
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6/23/2020 The 6 Luxury Condo Buildings In New York With The Most Unsold Inventory—Bisnow

For the city’s pricey new residential development market, 2020 was shaping up as a challenging year before it became the epicenter of the worst pandemic in a century.
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6/23/2020 Around Brooklyn: Many act like pandemic is already over—Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Many New Yorkers are acting like the coronavirus pandemic is over, even though the City is only beginning Phase Two of four phases. Teenagers with baseball gloves and a bat sneak through a hole in a fence. Bar patrons socialize at outdoor tables without face coverings. “We made it, that’s all I can say,” said one of three sisters who were sitting close together on a bench at Coney Island on Friday. The sisters had followed the quarantine guidelines until recently, The New York Times said.
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6/23/2020 StreetEasy settles Elliman dispute with a major concession—The Real Deal

A dispute between New York City’s most popular listing portal and a top-producing brokerage has been settled — but not without a major concession.
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6/23/2020 Manhattan’s Real Estate Market Enters Phase 2 in Stronger Position—Mansion Global

As real estate agents get back to work—part of New York City’s Phase 2 reopening on Monday—they’re being greeted with some relatively good news.
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