SACKS REALTY CO., INC. v. SHORE


721 A.2d 1011 (1998)

SACKS REALTY CO., INC., a New Jersey Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant/ Cross-Respondent, v. Estelle SHORE and Ziad and Susan Olabi, Defendants-Respondents/ Cross-Appellants, Sophie Curran, Maxine Acevedo, Margaret M. Warren, Mary and Margaret Toomey, Helen Carey, Herbert and Margaret Keegan, Edward and Pearl Faber, Jeanne Dolan, Victor and Denise Davis, Harold and Dorothy Turf, Ethel Gibney, Fred and Anita Pucciarelli, Marie Stender, John P. and Margaret Nealon, Harry and Dorothy Zeller, Anne T. Sheehy, Thomas F. Kelly, Executor for Estate of Elizabeth Roache and Michael J. Kelly, Executor for Estate of M. Delores Roache, Gerald and Eleanor Mugno, Betty Berger, Marie Medina and Elizabeth Arrieta, and Helen Wynne, Executrix of the Estate of Margaret M. Geraghty, Defendants.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided December 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Kleeblatt for plaintiff-appellant/cross-respondent (Kleeblatt, Galler & Abramson, Hackensack, attorneys; Mr. Kleeblatt, on the brief).

Paul G. Garjian for defendant-respondent/cross-appellant Estelle Shore (Sheila H. Klempner, Tenafly, attorney).

Robert Pentangelo, Clifton, for defendants-respondents/cross-appellants Ziad and Susan Olabi.

Lawrence Sindoni, Jersey City, on behalf of amicus curiae Hudson County Legal Services Corp.

Before Judges PRESSLER, BROCHIN and STEINBERG.


The opinion of the court was delivered by PRESSLER, P.J.A.D.

This appeal implicates the complex of legislation affording special protections to tenants of premises converted or proposed to be converted to condominium or cooperative ownership. The specific questions before us are first, whether as a matter of public policy a tenant may validly waive those protections without any offsetting consideration, and second, whether the retroactivity provisions of the Tenant...

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