Monthly Archives: October 2024
Understanding Your Rights When Screening Prospective Tenants
The tenant screening process is a minefield of stress for tenants, but it is no picnic for landlords, either. A landlord’s nightmare is an apartment that stays vacant month after month while the bills continue to come due, or at least, you think that it’s the worst-case scenario until you get stuck with a… Read More »
New Law Protects Homeowners Against Partition Sales
Probate lawyers come to the aid of the personal representatives of deceased family members’ estates when they must face their worst enemy, estate research firms that are in the business of convincing people to try to claim an inheritance from the estate of a distant relative they have never met. To give just one… Read More »
Putting the Unaffordability of New York Homeownership in Perspective
For decades, New York City has been a byword for the high cost of living. People who live almost anywhere else in the United States either look longingly at New York for its fast-paced lifestyle or balk at the cost of lunch from a sandwich counter or food truck while they visit, while the… Read More »
The J-51 Tax Abatement
It is painful to think about how much of your earned income goes to income taxes, whether you spend your days juggling 1099 gigs or whether you have a cushy job that pays you so much that you still have enough money left for some fun splurges even after the IRS claims its share. … Read More »
It’s Legal for New York Landlords to Make Tenants Pay Broker Fees, but Don’t Expect Them to Be Happy About It
In the Internet Age, stage musicals require more suspension of disbelief than most other works of fiction. Therefore, the musicals whose soundtracks were first released on CD or on music streaming services must contain just the right mix of cynicism and childlike wonder to achieve any staying power. In the early years of the… Read More »