Come Sandy or high water, the mortgage, rent and taxes are still due on time.
City property taxes are due on Jan. 2.
“Even if your house is gone, those lots are still presumably owned by those people,” said attorney Steven Sladkus, of the law firm Wolf Haldenstein.
The owners “may be able to get something [reduced] retroactively in a year,” he said. “But for now, a bill is a bill.”
Building owners are also expecting to get rent checks that were due Thursday, the first of the month.
Some displaced office tenants may be able to get an offset from their rent, but it would have to depend on their lease, said Sladkus.
But the city and state are letting businesses wait until Nov. 14 to pay certain taxes that were due Wednesday and Thursday.