Articles by Glenn S. Demby

We outline seven ways to avoid liability risk.

In 2016, a New York City Housing Authority-owned and managed public housing site converted to semi-private ownership under the PACT program. When a tenant who obtained a Section 8 project-based voucher after the conversion died, NYCHA sought to evict her adoptive daughter who was living the unit...

State in a clear and precise way exactly what the concession does and doesn’t cover.

An investment advisor tenant stopped paying utilities in March 2020; it stopped paying rent in June; and it surrendered the office in November. The landlord sued the tenant and the corporate officer who signed a good guy guaranty on its behalf ...

Best Buy subleased retail property to Factory Direct on the condition that it return the premises in a “condition and repair equal to the condition and repair thereof at the commencement of said term” and pay 150 percent of the fixed rent if it held over. Factory Direct vacated before the sublea...

Two recent cases illustrate how courts decide.