You weren’t expecting it. Maybe it came through the mail, maybe someone handed it to you at the door — but now you’re holding a legal notice tied to a piece of Long Island real estate, and you have no idea what it means or what you’re supposed to do next. That feeling is more

Long Island’s real estate market doesn’t leave much room for error. With median home prices pushing $840,000 in Nassau County and $725,000 in Suffolk County, a dispute that might have felt minor a decade ago can now put six or seven figures at risk. Whether a deal just collapsed, a neighbor built something on what