Need Housing (Landlord-Tenant) Lawyer Recommendation
Some new owners on our block just bought an SRO currently populated with illegal squatters and drug dealers but are having trouble getting them to leave. Can anyone recommend a good housing lawyer with experience in Brooklyn who can help them deal with this? The new owners are willing to try to buy out current…
Some new owners on our block just bought an SRO currently populated with illegal squatters and drug dealers but are having trouble getting them to leave. Can anyone recommend a good housing lawyer with experience in Brooklyn who can help them deal with this? The new owners are willing to try to buy out current occupants, if necessary, but none of them have a lease or have paid rent in years, and they’re all very hostile, so the new owners need to do this through a good lawyer. Any recommendations?
Max,
Just curious, do you know Horing’s flat fee for a non-payment case?
I can’t think of dealing with anything more scary than hostile squatting drug dealers, except maybe lawyers.
If there ever was a Brownstoner Renovation Blog I would enjoy reading about this is it. Ask your friends if they are willing to write up their progress in a weekly posting e.g. Inside Third and Bond Week ###
They should call:
Horing Welikson and Rosen P.C.
11 Hillside Avenue
Williston Park, New York 11596
Phone: (516) 535-1700
Fax: (516) 535-1701
I have been using them for years in the Brooklyn LL/T court and they are very experienced and reasonably priced with a flat fee schedule for most services. Just call and speak to the office manager and she will assign their attorney who works in the Brooklyn court to your matter (probably Bryant Tovar – who is solid). I used two other law firms in Brooklyn with marginal results – these are the people you want. (and NO I don’t work for them)
J
staceys, yea I saw that reference too. But it didn’t make sense that a member of the New York Bar, and apparently not the Connecticut Bar, would be practicing in Connecticut. Oh well…..
If you are looking for Elaine Shay she is still registered as an attorney in NYC but it looks like she may be practicing out of Connecticut
http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/elaine-shay-1191383
mtr, all the sources I get from googling Elaine Shay give her old address on Garfield Pl and her old phone number. Strange. That address and phone number are now a diffferent lawyer. My messages inquiring about Shay go unanswered. Do you have the address or phone # in Brooklyn Heights?
If there are squatters and drug dealer in the house, you might try the police. I had a friend with a similar problem. They went to the house at night with the police who got everyone out. You should be prepared with chains and padlocks if the police are successful. You will need to show the police proof you own the building.
David Kaminsky in Manhattan is really fantastic. Very knowledgeable and knows the ins and outs of the Courts.
http://www.davidakaminsky.com/
Robert Olshever is very good, not cheap but he gets the job done. I’ve used him in the past and been very happy with the results. I’d think their best hope to get the building vacant may be to evict on the basis of owner’s personal use, difficult but not impossible. Good luck, however, if their only goal is to evict the current residents and replace them with paying tenants. And the last time I worked with Elaine Shay she had moved to Brooklyn Heights.