Navigating the intricacies of a dispute between a landlord and tenant is a vital part of our practice. Our diverse client base allows us to understand both parties’ perspectives, so we can create the best approach for our clients.

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Landlord & Tenant Practice represents both landlords and tenants in commercial and residential leasing disputes. We handle these matters from the beginning stage of a dispute, including assisting with the preparation of all predicate notices, through trials and appeals. Our strategic, multidisciplinary approach analyzes all aspects of a dispute and allows us to determine the best route – whether mediation, arbitration, settlement discussions, or, ultimately, litigation.

We represent developers, real estate companies, property owners, tenants, and cooperative and condominium clients on a wide range of landlord and tenant issues. Our landlord and tenant dispute experience includes:

• Bankruptcy matters pertaining to landlords and tenants
• Summary holdover proceedings involving lease terminations based on illegal alterations, illegal use, unauthorized sublet or assignment, insufficient insurance, building code, and other violations
• Summary non-payment proceedings
• Administrative and NYS Division of Housing & Community Renewal proceedings
• Guaranty enforcement actions
• Issues involving cooperative and condominium boards and individual shareholders
• Lease defaults
• Plenary actions for rent arrears
• Yellowstone injunctions and other declaratory judgment actions

We regularly appear and litigate in New York City Housing Court, the Commercial Landlord-Tenant Part of the New York City Civil Court, New York State Supreme Court, the courts of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. We often handle cases on behalf of clients before various governmental agencies including the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), and the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH).

Given the firm’s broad experience in the real estate market, we quickly interpret and assess issues from the inception of a dispute, and we move swiftly to address the issues affecting our clients.