Gil Howard Vilkas

I have used Gil Vilkas for many years as my real estate attorney in various corporate and personal real estate matters.   His breath of knowledge of the industry and his advice to me personally has been invaluable. He has represented me in numerous closings and transactions over the past 20 years ...– including real estate purchases, leasing, buy-sell agreements as well as the implications regarding estate planning.   He has always found ways not to just save me thousands of dollars on a given transaction, but to also notice subtle clauses to better protect my interest.   In addition to his vast breadth of knowledge and sharp skill, Gil is one of the most accessible attorneys I have ever met.  He unflinchingly speaks with me late evenings and during weekends any time I have a question.   I trust Gil implicitly and am so incredibly grateful that he has represented me for the past 20 years.   I most highly recommend Gil Vilkas for all of your real estate transactional needs. - Stan

I am so thankful and appreciative that I was referred to Gil Vilkas. Gil Vilkas did an exceptional job representing me and my husband during our recent Manhattan coop purchase, working with a very demanding coop board. His expertise was extremely valuable - for me in particular - since we did ...not use a real estate broker. Not only did he guide us in our legal issues with our contract but he also helped negotiate many challenging concerns that arose as well. After we were already in contract, the seller insisted on staying in the apartment for an additional 6 months. Gil craftily negotiated a clever way to keep me both financially - and mentally - protected to permit her limited extended stay. Gil brilliantly guided us through this complicated process, always acting extremely professional. If it wasn’t for Gil, we wouldn’t have been able to purchase this apartment. Even the seller said she wish she had Gil as her own attorney. I highly recommend Gil and will definitely use him again to represent us on our next transaction.

We had a difficult deal with an difficult buyer, but Gil made it happen. At times, the buyer was so troublesome, that thought the whole thing was going to fall apart, but Gil saved the deal, guided us through all difficulties, and ensured we completed the closing to our satisfaction. Thank you Gil..., we look forward to working with you in the future.

Gil H. Vilkas is possibly the worst law office on Long Island to handle your real estate closings. I felt they lacked the tenacity to argue on our behalf: They made concessions on our contract that we were unwilling or ill-informed to make because of their lack of communication, even on the day of cl...osing. I felt like I was the intermediary between Gil H. Vilkas's office, our mortgage broker, our real estate agent, and our other real estate attorney. They were oftentimes unresponsive to simple requests that were made by our other attorney, and I became increasingly frustrated with every phone call I had to make to Gil H. Vilkas's office. They should have taken care of this without me; it was incredibly unprofessional. Their knowledge of real estate law was either incomplete, or they did not disclose certain changes in NYS law, causing headaches across the board for all. What should have been a routine closing turned out to be the most logistically stressful three weeks of my life.