Advice - how to safeguard my rights ? Demolition/dev. to begin next door
Last week we received notice of demolition which will be taking place directly next to our house in Crown Heights. The gossip on the street is that this double lot house/vacant space will be developed into medium rise condominiums. How can I find out what the developers plans are, and how can I be sure…
Last week we received notice of demolition which will be taking place directly next to our house in Crown Heights.
The gossip on the street is that this double lot house/vacant space will be developed into medium rise condominiums.
How can I find out what the developers plans are, and how can I be sure that they do not overbuild ? Are there proactive steps that I should be taking now – such as taking pictures of the exterior of my house etc. etc. ? Who should I turn to for advice – a RE lawyer ? An Architect ?
Any advice would be appreciated.
To guest 8am
Yes, Curacao it is beautiful.
If you need to find the owner of an offshore corporation. It is never going to happen.
They have stong secrecy laws to protect owners of any business which makes it difficult to colect money.
Offshore companies is a huge source of income for the island.
To guest 8am
Yes, Curacao it is beautiful.
If you need to find the owner of an offshore corporation. It is never going to happen.
They have stong secrecy laws to protect owners of any business which makes it difficult to colect money.
Offshore companies is a huge source of income for the island.
Curacao is beautiful. The capital city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
keep your fingers crossed it is not owned by a shell corporation offshore in a place like curacao.
If that is the case, you will never find out the owners name.
We had the same situation only the person next door would need access to our backyard and walkway. I asked him to place $10,000 in an escrow account in case my property was damaged. I also asked that he name my property on his construction insurance so that if his workers damaged anything in my yard it would be covered. Lastly since his workers were working in my walkway on scaffolding, etc. I asked that I be held harmless for any injuries that resulted on my property. As someone else pointed out the worse thing that happened was the dust and debris. Luckily I had a very, very nice family building next door and it all worked out well.
Getting 5 day notices in the mail for the demo is a good start. They should have notified your community board as well. I hope the Demo contractor isn’t MMG contracting!
Concerns:
Is your house attached to the one they are demo’ing? They will need to waterproof if yes. Depending on how tall the building is they may or may not be able to use mechanical means to bring down the house. There is supposed to be dust mitigation with water by law.
Call the B.E.S.T. squad for demo complaints AND 311.
The DOB BIS page will be your best source of info. You should get phone numbers off the job applications. Sometimes even cell phone numbers of the GC.
The best advice I can give is to try and open up a dialog as soon as possible with the developer that is not adversarial. Keeping the channels open is the key.
In both of my houses major construction took place directly adjacent to the property. In one instance an entirely new house was built, foundation and all, and in the other, the house next door was gutted from roof to basement. Take pictures, yes, just to be on the safe side, but in neither instance was my house affected in the slightest and i just mention this because more likely than not yours won’t be either. The worst of it was the noise and dust.
OP, if you look on ACRIS, you may also see a mortgage issued to the owner. If you have the block and lot, do a search for all docs (i.e., don’t limit it to deeds). If the mortgage is fairly recent, you should see a .pdf attached. There are likely to be some real people in those mortgage docs.
Developers often create new legal entities for each property so you won’t technically have the same owner for any other properties. But once you have some names from the mortgage, you can try punching those in to a name search on ACRIS and see what you get.
Also, click on all the DOBs’ website for any open job listed at the property. You may find some names there as well, if you noodle around enough.
This has been very helpful. Thank you ! I looked on ACRIS and the owner is named as the actual street address – for example 333 (Street Name) Inc. No name is on file in the deed etc. Im not sure how to find out who the players were in this case…I will certainly begin to take the fotos. I think it is good to be prepared for all scenarios, for this reason I want to be as prepared as possible.