Legal Talk for Co-ops and Condos

About Legal Talk for Co-ops and Condos

Co-op and condo board directors face a myriad of challenges they are not equipped to solve, and taking action can be a fraught experience. In this series, Habitat Magazine editors interview New York's leading co-op/condo attorneys for guidance on these challenges. Habitat, a New York City publication founded in 1982, is edited for co-op and condo board directors, property managers, and other professionals.

Publisher

Legal Talk by Habitat Magazine

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Dec 2022

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 70 episodes have a transcript.

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   28 Sept 2026

   When Worry About a Neighbor Meets the Law

   Send us Fan Mail A longtime neighbor keeps leaving the stove on. There's no family to call, no one to knock on the door, and the board is losing sleep over what might happen next. Justin Buchel, partner at Schneider Buchel, describes this increasingly common situation, in which compassion and liability pull in opposite directions. He unpacks how boards navigate these tense moments and why the answer is rarely as simple as walking through the door. You'll hear why some situations that feel urg...

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   21 Sept 2026

   A Parking Problem That Landed a Board in Court

   Send us Fan Mail When a co-op board grew frustrated with a parking garage tenant overstepping its limits, a routine notice of default seemed like the obvious fix. Instead, it triggered a lawsuit and a costly lesson in New York's unforgiving procedural rules. Drew Pakett, partner at Braverman Greenspun, walks through what happens when commercial tenants push back against default notices, why "sweetheart leases" make tenants fight harder to stay put, and how a single missing paragraph can sink ...

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   24 Aug 2026

   What Boards Can Really Do About a Disruptive Neighbor

   Send us Fan Mail When a co-op has a shareholder no one can live with, boards actually have serious legal muscle to do something about it. Steven Anderson, former partner at Becker Law and now with Kucker Marino Winiarsky & Bittens, breaks down the landmark Pullman case and how it turned "objectionable conduct" into one of the sharpest tools a co-op board can wield. Anderson explains why condo boards face a much steeper climb when trying to remove a disruptive owner, and what separates the...

Inside a recent episode

When Shareholders Push Back Against the Board

Published 16 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So when I say politics, I mean the options available other than strict legal action. Okay. And what is the legal action if the politics don't work? Well, first, you could, the group could initiate a lawsuit to compel the board to hold the meeting. However, that takes time, it takes money. And there is another option available under the business corporation law, which is what we pursue most frequently. And that is section 603 of the BCL, which provides that if a board has not called an annual meeting and election for 13 months since the previous election, then the owners of 10 % or more of the shares can submit a petition to the board. […]

Who has been a guest on Legal Talk for Co-ops and Condos

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• Aaron Shmulewitz
• Lisa Radetsky
• Maria Beltrani
• Ingrid Manevitz
• Helene Hartig

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71,419

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Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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45

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YouTube

76

Engagement

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