David Snyder, Esq. · Keller Williams NYC

The biggest deal of your life
deserves a broker who's also a lawyer.

When you hire The Lawful Broker, you get a licensed broker who is also a trained attorney — reading the contract, running the tax numbers, and negotiating with the whole deal in view. Buying, selling, or renting, the work is the same: you go in more prepared than the other side of the table, and nothing in the paperwork catches you off guard.

Start with the 15-minute call I'm buying or selling I'm renting
The Lawful Broker — New York City

Buyers & Owners

Discreet, precise representation from valuation to closing. You know your true number before you commit, your name stays private, and the transaction is advised at every step.

Structure the deal →

Rentals

Fifteen applications hit the same inbox. Yours is the one the landlord picks — with concessions in writing.

Win the apartment →
Representation · Buyers & Owners

Buy like an institution.
Represented like a private office.

A home at this level is not a listing to be shopped — it is a decision to be advised. You work directly with a senior attorney-broker who structures the transaction, protects your privacy, and reaches the properties that never touch the public market. Quiet, curated, and entirely yours.

The full number, before you commit

Mansion tax thresholds, transfer taxes, flip taxes, 1031 timelines, primary-residence planning. You know precisely what a transaction costs before you make a move — and your CPA and counsel are never surprised at the closing table.

A transaction built to protect you

LLC and trust acquisitions. Condo versus co-op realities. Board package strategy, financing contingencies, and contract terms that hold when the market moves between signing and closing. The structure is your protection.

Handled in complete confidence

Off-market and quietly held properties. NDAs before anyone walks through the door. Your name kept off the public record to the extent the law allows. No open houses, no lockboxes, no chatter — only a small number of the right people ever know.

1031 exchanges LLC & trust purchases Off-market sourcing Board package strategy NDA showings Mansion & transfer tax planning Contract negotiation
Esq.
A trained attorney reads everything you sign
72 hrs
From your first call to your plan of attack
0
Surprises waiting for you at closing
100%
Of the negotiation carried for you

David Snyder is a licensed real estate broker who is also a licensed attorney. On these transactions he acts as your broker, not as your lawyer — nothing on this site is legal, tax, or investment advice, and no communication here creates an attorney-client relationship. Legal and tax outcomes depend on your circumstances. On every transaction we work alongside your own attorney and CPA — and if you don't have them, we'll introduce you to excellent ones.

Rentals · Tenant Representation

“Everyone can find the unit. I get you the unit.”

The apartment isn't the problem. Winning it is.

Here's what nobody tells you before you start looking: the inventory isn't the problem — almost every listing worth seeing is on StreetEasy. The problem is what happens in the six hours between when you decide you want an apartment and when someone else signs the lease. That's where deals get won and lost. That's where I work.

Speed

The best apartments in your price range get 10 to 15 applications within 48 hours. Whoever tours fastest, applies cleanest, and follows up hardest wins. Most renters lose the apartment while deciding whether to lose it.

The application pile

Listing agents pick the application that will close cleanest — not the first one in. Renters don't know how their income, credit, and references get read on the other side of the table. Landlords do. That gap is where deals die.

No one negotiates

First month free, guarantor waived, fee reduction, move-in flexibility, extra parking, amenity credits. All of it is on the table on the right unit. Renters who negotiate themselves leave thousands of dollars on it every year.

01
Get it across the finish line

Speed, follow-up, paperwork. I move faster than the market and I don't let deals slip in the last mile.

02
Convince the listing agent to choose us

My relationships, my track record, my reputation for closing clean. Listing agents know when I'm on the other side, the deal signs.

03
Negotiate everything on the table

First month free, guarantor waived, fee reduction, concessions. Every dollar you don't know to ask for is a dollar I earn back.

04
Handle every landlord and agent conversation

You never sound desperate, never lose leverage, never say the wrong thing at the wrong moment.

05
Feed you coming-soon and off-market

Anything I hear from landlord contacts before it hits the public market — you see it first, alongside everything on StreetEasy.

Why renters who work with me win

You bring the search criteria and the timeline. I bring the market. Together we tour 3 to 5 apartments inside 72 hours, choose one, and apply the same day. My job is to make yours the application the landlord picks and to hand you keys with concessions in writing. That's the whole game, and I'm good at it.


The fee

Disclosed in writing before any application, per the FARE Act. My fee is paid by you when I'm working as your tenant representative. The exact number is set on the 15-minute intake call, so it's fixed before either of us spends time on tours.

The process

  1. 15-minute intake call — criteria, budget, timeline
  2. One-page representation agreement via DocuSign
  3. 3 to 5 matched apartments in your inbox within 24 hours
  4. Tours of the top 2 to 3 within 48 to 72 hours
  5. Application the same day — that's the norm
  6. I negotiate the lease, walk you through signing and keys
Clients

The reputation is the strategy.

In a city this small, reputation is everything — whose calls get returned, whose offers are taken seriously, whose deals close without drama. Here's what that looks like from the client's side of the table.

"He walked us through the LLC purchase and the board package like he'd done it a hundred times. Nothing about the closing surprised us — which is exactly what you want when this much money is moving."

— BUYER, TRIBECA

"Fifteen people wanted the same apartment. David got the landlord to pick us — and got the first month free on top of it. We'd have lost it on our own."

— RENTER, UPPER EAST SIDE

"From the first call to the closing table, we were treated like the only client he had — every question answered within the hour, every detail handled before we thought to ask. It felt less like hiring a broker and more like having a private advisor in our corner."

— BUYER, SUTTON PLACE
Insights · The Lawful Blog

How this market actually works.

No listicles, no fluff. What we're seeing in deals right now — and what it means for your lease, your closing, and your tax bill.

Rentals

The FARE Act, one year in: what renters actually pay now

Who pays the fee, what must be disclosed, and the mistake I see renters make every week.
Sales · Tax

The mansion tax cliff: why $999,999 and $1,000,000 are different worlds

How the thresholds work, and how deal structure keeps you on the right side of them.
Privacy

Buying through an LLC in NYC: what it hides, and what it doesn't

The honest version of the anonymity conversation, including the LLC disclosure rules.

Fifteen minutes. Then a plan.

One call to talk through your criteria, your timeline, and what a good outcome looks like for you. Buying, selling, or renting — the clock doesn't start until there's a plan.