Birds in flight may be beautiful, but their departure sometimes leaves the nest unprotected. And when that nest is in a condominium or cooperative community, property managers and boards must do their best to compensate. This …
What happens at a co-op or condo community’s annual meeting should be strictly business, though these gatherings also can be a place where resident shareholders and unit owners kvetch about their concerns regarding the building or commu…
Regardless of whether they’re self-managed or employ a management company, a co-op or condominium board of directors will at some point have to make decisions about how and from whom the building gets its supplies and services. …
This in an anxious time in which to sit on the board of directors. With defaults and foreclosures accounting for some 20 percent or more of the units at some condominiums, frustration among board and association members is off the char…
The relationship between boards and management is, by its very nature, a deep and complex one. The two sides rely upon one another to ensure the smooth oversight of their co-op and condo communities. Both are dedicated to doing everyth…
Many co-ops in New York lease, rather than own, the land beneath their apartment building. For the board of a leasehold co-op, navigating a contested land valuation, in which the amount of the co-op’s ground rent is determined through a…
Despite some admissions of error from the city, and a temporary cap on increases in assessed valuations, co-op officers and elected officials from Eastern Queens who in recent weeks have declared a “tax revolt” aren’t backing down. …
You may live in the most well-run and self-sufficient building in the city, but even in Gotham, no building is an island. Developments from Penn South in Manhattan to Co-op City in the Bronx to the small six-story condo building in the…
In the course of human events, it's almost inevitable that somewhere, at some point, tempers will flare and someone will say something awful about someone else. It can happen after the PTA meeting, in the gym, at the office...even in o…
As gasoline prices rise with increasing summer demand, building administrators' attention has turned sharply to the cost of energy, and ways to trim fat from their overall energy budgets. Yet for the nation’s nearly 60 million…