4,200 Cases. Both Sides of the Door.

Maria R., a 67-year-old rent-stabilized tenant of 22 years, found a 14-day cure notice alleging an unauthorized occupant — her daughter, who had moved in two months earlier after a domestic violence incident. The landlord had surveillance footage. Court date was in eleven days.

We filed an Order to Show Cause to stay any further proceedings and submitted an emergency DHCR complaint establishing the daughter's protected status under the NYC Administrative Code. Simultaneously, we drafted a response to the cure notice documenting the DV circumstances and citing RPL §227-c.

The landlord withdrew the notice before the return date. The daughter was added to the lease as a permitted occupant. Maria has lived in the apartment for 24 years. The file is closed.

A 24-unit co-op on the Upper West Side had been in an undeclared war with one shareholder for three years. Two prior termination notices had been withdrawn under legal pressure. The shareholder had sublet the unit to three separate parties in eighteen months. Two other shareholders threatened to sell if the board didn't resolve it. The building's underlying mortgage was up for renewal.

We audited the prior termination notices and identified the procedural defects that had caused the withdrawals. We rebuilt the termination process from the ground up: proper board resolutions, documented cure periods, shareholder-meeting minutes, and a complete subletting violation log. We coordinated with the building's managing agent to create an evidentiary record that would survive an Article 78 challenge.

The shareholder surrendered the proprietary lease in forty days and accepted a negotiated buyout. No litigation was filed. The mortgage renewed at favorable terms. The building's reserve fund absorbed the legal costs.