A new development in the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) will be of keen interest to certain New York residential property owners and landlords. For months, most evictions have been on hold against residential tenants with pending ERAP applications, even...
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NYC housing courts struggling to recover from COVID restrictions
After the long haul through the eviction moratorium and other pandemic-related restrictions, landlords and property owners are ready to get back on track with life as we knew it in the housing business. Unfortunately, this is not yet the case. Several moving parts...
Seattle law letting tenants self-certify financial need unconstitutional
New York property owners will remember the important U.S. Supreme Court case that shut down enforcement of the provision of our pandemic eviction moratorium law, the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (CEEFPA), that allowed a tenant to...
Licensee not eligible for stay of eviction for COVID-19 hardship
Attorney Adam P. Cooper of Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C., attained a judgment in favor of our client holding that occupants of residential premises our client owns were ineligible for a stay of a holdover proceeding based on alleged hardship...
A Supreme Court decision represents welcome news for landlords
Last Thursday, a decision by the Supreme Court saw a majority ban part of a New York State eviction moratorium established in response to the coronavirus health crisis. The decision was welcome news for landlords throughout the state who are experiencing their own...
Judge Upholds Judgment of Ejectment
Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C obtained a favorable ruling for a client seeking to recover possession of rent-stabilized apartment. The court found that the tenant had no reasonable excuse for his default in the ejectment action. The...
The New York state of commercial eviction during COVID-19
The COVID-19 era has been a roller coaster for New York City commercial property owners. Collectively, the amount of money at stake in the commercial leases in effect within the five boroughs is certainly astronomical, and when rent payments start to disappear,...