While the vast majority of one-time projects and long-term service contracts involving vendors and service providers and their co-op, condominium or HOA clients go smoothly and either conclude or continue without incident, a small perc…
While natural disasters have impacted the United States for countless decades—from The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina—these catastrophic events are seemingly occurring with a more severe frequency. For…
Q Our co-op has a board member who shared a confidential board decision with the shareholders and went so far as to initiate and circulate a petition for a meeting of shareholders to reverse the board decision. Naturally, many sharehol…
Q I have lived in my cooperative apt for the past 13 years and have never been late with my carrying charges. In those years, the only repairs that the cooperative has made in my apartment have been emergency repairs (there was a broken…
Q I am a board member and shareholder in a Westchester County cooperative where there has recently been a lot of conflicts among board members. There is a board member who owns her own realty company and is now privy to all confidentia…
Q I am a co-op owner of 8 years and our management has raised the late fees from $25 to $50. Can this be done without any warnings? This affects me as I am not able to pay the maintenance and parking by the 10th of each month. I have wr…
Some of the most intense combat occurring in modern times is not that which has taken place on battlefields, such as at Normandy, Pork Chop Hill, or in the la Drang Valley, or currently in the mountains of Afghanistan, but rather in the…
It’s probably not something you think about every day—or that's especially pleasant to contemplate at any time—but the fact remains: without a thoughtfully constructed estate plan, there is a significant risk of your assets ending up in …
When you think of Jersey mobster Tony Soprano, fashionista Carrie Bradshaw, perpetual food-stained clothes wearer Liz Lemon, neurotic, scatterbrained Hannah Horvath and socialite Serena van der Woodsen, Long Island City might not sprin…
Whether condo associations will buy into the so-called “electric highway” has become the perennial $64,000 question. And the answer? The electric vehicle or EV revolution is coming, albeit slowly. ChargePoint, Inc., wh…