Without accepting a fee, Adam Leitman Bailey has provided a wealth of knowledge to the field of real estate law. For over 20 years, Mr. Bailey has authored, contributed to, and edited nearly 300 publications to people of all ages, including his award-winning and New York Times best-selling book, Finding the Uncommon Deal. Below is a collection of his works.

• Talking Points Against Governmental Takeover of Title Companies and all Small Businesses
• Negotiating RPAPL 881 License Agreements (NYLJ)
• When Can Condo and Co-op Boards Fine the Owners and Residents (NYLJ)
• The Newest New York City Real Estate Laws that Property Owners and Occupants Must Know in 2018 (The Huffington Post)
• Departmental Divide on Shareholder Family Occupancy (NYLJ)
• When Should a Landlord Hire a Lawyer (Best Lawyers)
• Sheltering the Homeless in Rent-Stabilized Units (NYLJ)
• The Essential Guide to the Most Important Clause in a Commercial Lease: The Default Clause (NYSBA Commercial Leasing 3^rd Edition)
• Avoid Creating an Email Contract: The Rules (NYSBA)
• Terminating Easements in States East of the Mississippi River (Probate & Property)
• Contesting Relocation Liens: Innocent Landowners Get Burnt (NYLJ)
• Seven Secrets to Drafting An Effective Commercial Lease Default Clause (The Huffington Post)
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Understanding Interest (NYLJ)
• Acceleration Clauses in Foreclosure Actions: New Rules (NYLJ)
• Analyzing Easement Laws and Cases in the States East of the Mississippi River (Probate & Property)
• Court Clarifies Condo Owners’ Right to Inspect (NYLJ)
• The Rent Law 2015 (The Huffington Post)
• Commercial Tenant Harassment in New York City- Questionable Medicine (The Huffington Post)
• Post-Lease Expiration Nonpayment Proceedings (NYLJ)
• Violation Battle: Level Up Your Building for the Fight – with City Hall (Habitat)
• Recent Efforts to Speed Up Foreclosure Proceedings in New York (NYLJ)
• The Sound and the Fury: Noise in Rentals, Co-ops, and Condos (NYLJ)
• The Rules for Allowing Pets in “No-Pet” Buildings (NYLJ)
• Residential Leases Now Require Sprinklers (The Cooperator)
• Understanding Single-Room Occupancy Laws – Part II (Real Estate Weekly)
• Understanding Single-Room Occupancy Laws Part I (Real Estate Weekly)
• The State of the Business Judgment Rule Appellate Court Rulings (The Cooperator)
• Old and new Loft Law Rules: What You Need to Know (Real Estate Weekly)
• Analyzing Adverse Possession Laws and Cases of the States East of the Mississippi River (Property & Probate)
• Why We Do Not Hire Law School Graduates from the Ivy League Schools (The Huffington Post)
• The State of Cooperative and Condominium Law in 2015 (NYLJ)
• Pitfalls for Buyers: Careful Drafting, Detailed Inquiries Minimize Risk (NYLJ)
• Defining the Limits of Liquidated Damages Clauses (NYLJ)
• Negotiating Laundry Room Contracts (The Cooperator)
• How to Revise Governing Documents (Habitat)
• Important Questions and Answers on the New and Old Rules of the Loft Law (NY Real Property Law Journal)
• The Nuisance of Nuisance: When Will Courts Allow Tenants to Cure? (New York Housing Journal)
• The Most Significant Title and Foreclosure Cases of 2015 (NYLJ)
• New Sprinkler-Notification Law Could Require Reissuing Proprietary Leases (Habitat)
• Discharge of Ancient Mortgages in New York (NYLJ)
• Rent Law of 2015: Deregulation, decontrol, renewals and you (Part II) Real Estate Weekly
• Rent Law of 2015: Deregulation, Decontrol, Renewals and You (Real Estate Weekly)
• Setting the Law Straight on Terminating Easements (NYLJ)
• Preferential Rents Now Decrease Vacancy Increase (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Application of the Adverse Possession Amendments (NYLJ)
• Use Nine Arguments to Beat DOB Violations (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Litigating Party Walls (NYLJ)
• Legal Ace Adam Bailey Breaking The Rules To Make New Ones (Real Estate Weekly)
• Advising Boards on Handling Secondhand Smoke Issues (NYLJ)
• Principal Of Sponsor May Be Held Separately Liable Where It Executes the Certification (NYLJ)
• A Lender’s Duty To Investigate Its Borrowers (Mortgage Banking)
• Fair-Market Tenants and Condominium Conversions (NYLJ)
• Finding Individual Liability for Sponsor’s Principals and Sponsor’s Waiver of The Notice Requirement Under the Offering Plan (Real Estate Weekly)
• Owners Should Never Gamble With Liquidated Damage Clauses (Real Estate Weekly)
• Sprinkler System Leases the New Letter of the Law (Real Estate Weekly)
• Clarified Rules for Earning Brokerage Commissions (NYLJ)
• Use Six Arguments to Bear Sanitation Violations (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• How To Overcome Tenant Resistance To An MCI Application (Mann Publications)
• The Metamorphosis of the Environmental Control Board (NYLJ)
• Housing Development Fund Corporations: Is Now the Right Time to Privatize? (The Cooperator)
• High Rent Vacancy Not a “Get Out of Jail Free” Card (Real Estate Weekly)
• Court Rule on Underfunded Condominium Reserve Funds (Real Estate Weekly)
• Court Grants License To Change Licensing Law Rules (NYLJ)
• How to Use A Tenant’s Association to Defeat an MCI Application (NY Real Property Law Journal)
• Evicting a Tenant for Having Too Many Residents or Violating the Roommate Law (Mann Publications)
• New Law Requires Sprinkler System Clauses in Leases (NYLJ)
• High Rent Vacancy: Not Actually Automatic Deregulation (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Business Judgment Rule: No Free Pass to Board Action (NYLJ)
• The First Rent Stabilization Overhaul in 14 Years (NYLJ)
• “Miller-Francis”: A Disturbance in the Force (NYLJ)
• Squeezing Out Evidence of Apartment Overcrowding (Real Estate Weekly)
• Setting House Rules in “No Pet” Buildings: No Longer are they “Animal Free” Zones (The Cooperator)
• Who’s in Charge When Ice Is Falling (Real Estate Weekly)
• State Legislators, Insurers and Courts to Homeowner Associations: We Will Not Insure Intentional Torts (Probate & Property)
• You Can Fight City Hall: Battling for Public Projects (NYLJ)
• Q&A: The Long Eviction Process (NYTIMES)
• Q&A: Rent-Stabilized Corporate Tenants (NYT)
• Directors and Officers Insurance Does Not Cover Intentional Discrimination (Habitat)
• Directors and Officers Discrimination Coverage (Habitat)
• Call All Monies Owed by Tenant “Additional Rent” to Speed Up Non-Payment Proceedings (Commercial Lease Law Insider)
• Using the Judicial System to Abate the Foreclosure Crisis (Probate & Property)
• Getting a Brokerage Commission Paid (NYLJ)
• Q & A: “Great Condo, With Stabilized Tenant (NYT)
• Q & A: Questions About A Washing Machine (NYT)
• The State of Foreclosures in 2012 (NYLJ)
• The Race to Erase Recording Mistakes (NYLJ)
• A Roundup of Foreclosure Law Decisions in 2012 (NYLJ)
• Keeping Window Guard Notices (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Q & A: Landlord Raises Garage Rent (NYT)
• How a Condo Board Can Collect Arrears By Using a Little-Known Tool Called DILF (Habitat)
• Finding Individual Tort Liability for Board Members (NYLJ)
• Lenders Can Foreclose on Properties, Even After Losing the Note (Real Estate Weekly)
• Q & A: Rejection Before an interview (NYT)
• Using the Judicial System to End the Foreclosure Crisis in New York (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Selling Common Space in a Co-op Building (NYT)
• Moving Beyond the Mistakes of MERS to Have A Secure and profitable National Title System
• Condo Arrears? Try DILF. It Means More than “Debtors I’d Like to…Foreclose On” (Habitat)
• Certifying Professionals May Be Subject to Lawsuits (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Frequent “Inspections” Breed Skepticism (NYT)
• Collecting Common Charges in Co-ops and Condos (The Cooperator)
• The New Rules of Foreclosure Litigation (NYLJ)
• Q & A: When a Subtenant Brings in a Roommate (NYT)
• Avoid Getting Sued: Check Out Rental Application (Thomson Reuters)
• Rent Stabilization Constitutional? Not Now (NYLJ)
• The Martin Act “Shield” and Private Fraud Actions (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Lender Says No To Co-op Sublet (NYT)
• NY Courts’ Reading of ILSA is within Statutory Bounds (NYLJ)
• Appellate Division Rules on Commercial Leasing (The Cooperator)
• When is it Company? When a Crowd? (NYLJ)
• Q & A: What to Expect After Deregulation (NYT)
• Recording: The Boundaries of the Whole World (NYLJ)
• Demonstrating the “Irrational”: Whatever Happened to Article 78? (NYLJ)
• Collecting Condo Arrears (Habitat)
• Adverse Possession (NYLJ)
• Adverse Possession in a Post-“Walling” World (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Accessing Common Elements (The Cooperator)
• Q & A: Buying Out a Stabilized Tenant (NYT)
• When Purchasing a Newly Constructed Condominium Unit, Let the Buyer Beware (Industry Report) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Condominium Conversion Reserve Fund Obligations (Real Estate Weekly)
• The Evolution of Rent Stabilization by Ambush (NYLJ)
• Board Turns Down Load Refinancing (NYT)
• Lawyers: You CAN Recover Cash When Condo Sponsors Underfund Reserves (Habitat)
• Construing the HETPA Foreclosure Procedures (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Who Pays for Water Leak? (The Cooperator)
• Q & A: No Guarantees on Code Compliance (NYT)
• They Do the Crime- And It’s on Your Dime (LJN)
• Select Issues in Representing HPD Supervised Mitchell-Lama Cooperatives (NYLJ)
• Disabled Resident Parking Spaces: Issues for Condo/Co-op Boards, Developers (Blomberg BNA)
• Q & A: Effects of Warranty of Habitability on Mortgage Foreclosures (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Q & A: Subletting vs. The Board? (The Cooperator)
• The World of Title Insurance in 2010 (NYLJ)
• Cooperative Foreclosure: The Accidental Doctrine (NYLJ)
• The Warranty of Habitability, an Unexpected Hazard in Foreclosure (NY Housing Journal)
• Corruption in Mitchell-Lama Co-ops! How Boards Can Fight Back: Part 1 (Habitat)
• Cooperative Foreclosure: Accidental Doctrine (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Raising Rents in “Hardship” Cases (NYT)
• New Use for an Old Tool: Collecting Rent With an Account Stated (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Putting a Time limit on Rent Stabilization (NYT)
• Adverse Possession After the 2008 RPAPL Amendments (NYLJ)
• New Power of Attorney Law Corrects Some Flaws, Not All (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Renting and Owning in the Same Building (NYT)
• Q & A: Protecting Boards from Liability: The Roommate Law (The Cooperator)
• Title Insurance Complexities in Tax Foreclosure Purchases (Mortgage Banking)
• Q & A: Free to Go at Lease’s End (NYT)
• HETPA Contains Land Mines for Unwary Attorneys, Buyers (NYLJ)
• Economic Infeasibility: A Rare and Complicated Defense (New York Housing Journal)
• Q & A: Aggressive Board Clamps Down on Unapproved Tenant (The Cooperator)
• Q & A: Roommate Laws vs. Co-op Board Rules (NYT)
• Q & A: Adding “Partners” to Co-op Shares (NYT)
• Navigating Buyers and Developers Through New Construction Deals (NYLJ)
• Calls for State Insurance Threaten Property Transfers (NYLJ)
• Understanding, Complying with New Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Rules (Bloomberg BNA)
• Split Between Departments Muddies Subrogation Doctrine (NYLJ)
• New Rules Aim to Curb Excessive Closing Costs (NYLJ)
• How to Win a Chronic Nonpayment Case (New York Housing Journal)
• Q & A: Individual Meters in a Rental Building (NYT)
• Preventing Fraud at a Real Estate Closing (Mortgage Banking)
• Q & A: When a Live-In Superintendent is a Requirement (NYT)
• Power-of-Attorney Changes Scramble Property Transfers (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Following the Rules for Subletting (NYT)
• In the Spotlight: Negotiating a Rooftop Antenna Contract (Law Journal Newsletters)
• Title Litigation: Expense of Theft Prevention Dwarfed by the Cost of Fraud (NYLJ)
• The Inquiring Mind: Buying Building with Separate Heating Plant (NY Housing Journal)
• What You Must Know When Negotiating a Rooftop Antenna Contract (The Cooperator)
• State High Court Decision Exorcises Ghosts of Liens Past (NYLJ)
• Despite “Jones,” Ambiguities in Title Chain Can Be Cured (NYLJ)
• The Newly Constructed or Converted Condominium (The Cooperator)
• In the Spotlight: Drafting Better Leases for the Commercial Tenant (LJN)
• The Consequences of Unpaid Water Bills (NYT)
• Adverse Possession Changes Make Results Less Certain (NYLJ)
• The Most Crucial Commercial Lease Cases (LJN)
• Q & A: Who Can Pay for a Rent Controlled Apartment? (NYT)
• Give Tenants “Mortgage” to Reduce Cash Outlay to Buy Out Rent Regulated Leases (NY Housing Journal)
• Q & A: A Stabilized Subtenant Dreams of Staying On (NYT)
• The Inquiring Mind: Using Lobby for Tenant Party (NY Housing Journal)
• Q & A: A Rent Stabilized Tenant Seeks to Negotiate (NYT)
• Attorneys Declare Concern for Pets
• Leasing Dinosaurs (NYLJ)
• A New Direction: More Decisions Favor Landlords Over Tenants (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Can a Seller Dictate the Down Payment? (NYT)
• Impact of New York City’s Amended Noise Control Code (NYLJ)
• Buying a Mixed-Use Building in New York City (LJN)
• Q & A: The Trunk is in Their Yard, the Branches are in Yours (NYT)
• When Boards Determine Not to Act (NYLJ)
• Standing to Sue Sham Condo, Co-op Sponsors Changed (NYLJ)
• Q & A: Is That Fair? (The Cooperator)
• Growing Fraud – Self Help Measures Can Head Off Problems
• Door Partly Closes for Buyer’s Brokers Seeking Fee (NYLJ)
• Constraints on Board Action – BCL 501( c ) (NYLJ)
• Using a License Agreement Instead of a Lease (LJN)
• Q & A: When a Stabilized Unit is Not the Sole Residence (NYT)
• Q & A: Shareholder Preventing Sale (The Cooperator)
• Adverse Possession: Veto Confirmed Existing Law on “Claim of Right” (NYLJ)
• Adam Leitman Bailey Recommends a Change to Cooperative’s Corporate Documents for Habitat Magazine 2007 Attorney Survey (Habitat)
• The Fine Lines in Suing to Evict Tenants’ Families (NYLJ)
• Defining When “Time is of the Essence” (NYLJ)
• The Limits of “Landaverde” (NYLJ)
• The Ins, Outs, and All Arounds of New Construction
• Economic Infeasibility: Rare Defense Requires Total Cooperation of Client (NYLJ)
• Harnessing the Internet (NYLJ)
• Drafting a Better and More Effective Right of First Refusal (LJN)
• Declaratory Judgment: Judges May Weigh Title if Ancillary to Authorized Relief (NYLJ)
• How to Win Eviction Case Against Tenant Who Overcharges Roommate (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Default Clauses: Better Drafting Can Forestall Problems (NYLJ)
• How to Handle City-Issued Violation Hearing (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Adam Leitman Bailey Predicts Decreased Prices and Bubble Bursting More Than Two Years Before Real Estate Crash
• Adam Leitman Bailey Provides Game Plan for Representing New Constructed Condominium Associations in Habitat Magazine’s 2006 Attorney Survey (Habitat)
• Deducting Cost of Repainting Purple Walls from Security Deposit (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Sidewalk Doesn’t Include Curbstone, Court Says (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Take Six Steps to Reduce Risks of Self-Help Eviction (Vendome Group)
• Right of First Refusal: In Pursuit of an Effective, Litigation-Proof Provision (NYLJ)
• Ex-Super Can’t Delay Eviction (Landlord v Tenant)
• Persuasive Personal Skills (Habitat)
• Enforcing the Contract – Obtaining Down Payment on Specific Performance (NYLJ)
• Post – Sandy: Three Attorneys’ Plain-English Guide for Co-op & Condo Boards (Habitat)
• The Availability of Self-Help Eviction to Commercial Landlords (LJN)
• Despite Absence, Son Earns Succession Rights
• Owner Can’t Waive Illegal Sublet Claim (CHIP)
• Self-Help Evictions: The Neglected Commercial Remedy (NYLJ)
• Use Get-Tough Lease Clauses to Discourage Chronic Late Rent Payments (Commercial Lease Law Insider)
• Letting Go of Leases and Allowing Licenses
• Drafting Better Leases (NY Property Law Journal)
• Commercial Property: Landlords May Entirely Eliminate Leasing (NYLJ)
• Owners’ Rights to Inspect Management Records (NYLJ)
• User Employee Log to Help Win Non-primary Residence Case (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• New Home Warranty: An Open Question Seeking an Answer (NYLJ)
• Notice to Cure Wasn’t Ambiguous (Landlord v Tenant)
• Legal Quandaries and How They Were Resolved (Habitat) https://alblawfirm.com/articles/condo-boards/
• Tenant Protection: Suggestions Offer Remedies for Harsh Provisions (NYLJ)
• Illegal Plumbing Installed (Landlord v. Tenant)
• Wrong Landlord Cited (Landlord v Tenant)
• Lessons from SuperStorm Sandy: Issues Facing Cooperative and Condominium Boards and Managers
• Discrimination: How Tenant Complaints Can Derail Eviction
• Sandy, One Year Later: Issues Facing Property Owners (NYLJ)
• Adam Leitman Bailey Gives Advice on Best/Worst Board Practices in Habitat Magazine’s 2003 Attorney Survey (Habitat)
• Wither “Sofidaze”? Many Courts Reject Ruling, First Department Silent (NYLJ)
• Q & A: When Access to Utilities is Limited (NYT)
• Dangerous Dogs (The Cooperator)
• New Construction: What You Need to Know
• Building Sold Before Violation Notice Issued (Landlord v Tenant)
• Attorneys Answer Six More Questions Boards Have About Superstorm Sandy (Habitat)
• Work Doesn’t Require Permit (Landlord v Tenant)
• Are Buyers of New Condos and Co-ops Subject to Caveat Emptor? (NYLJ)
• Adam Bailey Gives Advice on Pet Policy in Habitat Magazine’s 2002 Attorney Survey (Habitat)
• Criminal Liabilities for Cooperatives: A Dangerous Precedent (The Cooperator)
• Permit Not Required for Container (Landlord v Tenant)
• Post-Sandy Landlord-Tenant Questions and Answers About Your Apartments (NY Property Law Journal)
• How to Maximize Your Insurance Coverage and Governmental Assistance Post-Sandy https://alblawfirm.com/articles/maximize-your-insurance-coverage/
• Adam Leitman Bailey Assists with the 2017-2018 American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA) Mortgage Law Summary 2017-2018
• Adam Leitman Bailey Assists with the 2015-2016 American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA) MortgageLaw Summary 2015-2016
• Pitfalls for Buyers: Careful Drafting, Detailed Inquiries Minimize Risk (NYLJ)
• Adam Leitman Bailey’s Home Buying Book Finding the Uncommon Deal Becomes Number 1 New York Times Bestseller (NYT)
• When a Neighbor Brings Home a Pit Bull (NYT)
• Adam Leitman Bailey Incites Wisdom on the Topics of Cooperatives and Condominiums, Landlord-Tenant, Real Estate Securities, and Rent Regulation in the NY Real Estate Property Law (NY Real Property Law Journal)
• Nuisance Tenant with Debris-Filled Apartment Evicted (NY Housing Journal)
• Comprehensive Leases for Regulated and Unregulated Apartments in NY and Nationwide, Revised and Updated by Adam Leitman Bailey
• Adam Leitman Bailey Drafts Office Agreement for Blumberg Forms
• Adam Leitman Bailey Drafts Residential Lease Agreements for Blumberg Forms
• Proactively Thwarting Fake Disability Claims Intended to Bring In Pet Dogs (Habitat) https://alblawfirm.com/press-mentions/disability-claims/
• Post-Sandy Landlord-Tenant Questions and Answers About Your Apartments (MY Real Property Law Journal)
• Attorneys Answer Six More Questions Boards Have About Superstorm Sandy (Habitat)
• Landlords Facing Post – Sandy Responsibilities (NYLJ)
• 10 Ways to Prevent and Cure HOA Board Member Burnout (HOALeader.Com)
• Blumberg Introduces a Comprehensive New Sublease of a Cooperative Apartment in New York
• Corruption in Mitchell-Lama Co-ops! How Boards can Fight Back: Part 1 (Habitat)
• Protecting Boards from Liability: The Roommate Law (The Cooperator)
• Q & A: Aggressive Board Clamps Down on Unapproved Tenant (The Cooperator)
• Understanding, Complying With New Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Rules (Bloomberg BNA)
• In The Spotlight: Negotiating a Rooftop Antenna Contract (LJN)
• Rules | Bylaw Revisions Needed (Habitat)
• Adam Leitman Bailey Addresses New York State Land Title Association
• Why Do I Have to Buy Title Insurance When Purchasing Property? (Super Lawyers)
• Extra Notice Needed if Attorney Prepares Nonpayment Court Papers, Says Federal Court (NY Apartment Law Insider)
• Tenant Temporarily Moved to California to Care for Sick Parent (Landlord v Tenant)
• Post-Sandy: Three Attorneys’ Plain English Guide for Co-op & Condo Boards (Habitat)