Category: Building Operations

Maintenance Looking up at the beautiful windows of a New York City Building. Construction scaffolding / elevator
2023 March Dealing With Major Façade Projects

Like the skin of the human body, a building’s façade is its largest organ (so to speak), offering structure and protection, as well as a first aesthetic impression. It also takes the brunt of extremely harsh conditions: weather, wind, water…

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Maintenance Shanghai, China - March 26: Exterior cleaning and building cleaning with high pressure water jet on March 26, 2016 in Shanghai, China. Shanghai is the largest Chinese city by population.
2023 March Façade Cleaning

As the old saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression—which is why the façade of your building should always look clean and in top shape, for both aesthetic and commercial reasons. Important as appearances are, however,…

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Maintenance Underground japan white car parking/garage
New Garage Inspection Requirements

A new NYC law will place yet another inspection requirement on co-op and condo communities with parking facilities on their premises. Known as Local Law 126/2021, the measure is only the latest in a long and growing string of ordinances pas…

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Management Blue chip manager is unlocking a virtual locking mechanism to access shared cloud resources. Internet concept for identity & access management, cloud storage, cybersecurity and managed services.
Unified Property Access

Over the last few decades, property technology, or 'proptech' has completely transformed how we live and work. Historically, the real estate industry has been slow to embrace technology - which means many co-op and HOA boards are missing ou…

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Management Hand putting voting paper in the ballot box. Vintage engraving stylized drawing. Vector illustration
2023 January Holding Elections

In many ways co-op, condo, and HOA living represents the most basic form of representative democracy. Like the ancient Athenians, we gather periodically to elect a small group from among us to represent our joint interests and to oversee th…

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Management Teamwork of multi-ethnic and multicultural people working together. Concept of community of different people. Unity and solidarity between people of different cultures. Concept of activist and protest movement. Friendship, solidarity, tolerance and brotherhood among peoples. International and multicultural society and population. Cooperation between communities. Anti-racism protest. Volunteer concept. Antiracism and racial equality concept.
2023 January The Board Management Relationship

In the world of co-ops, condos, and HOAs, management plays a slightly different role than it does in the rest of the real estate world. For example, in many rental buildings, the landlord or property owner often acts as de facto manager as …

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Management Management Trials  & Triumphs
2023 January Management Trials & Triumphs

Like any profession, property management has its moments. Managers often feel a sense of great achievement when they’ve done a good job for a client community, sorting out a seemingly intractable problem, saving them thousands of dollars, o…

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