Q. If a board chooses not to conduct a criminal background check on either a prospective employee or purchaser, could the board and/or board members be liable if that person commits a crime or other misdeed against the property or residen…
Q. I live in a 6-apartment condo building. Two of the residents have decided on their own without contacting the board or other residents to put cameras outside the doors to their units on two different floors. Is that legal for them to d…
Q. “My co-op, since I can remember, has applied every increase in maintenance, shares, etc. based on whether a unit is one bedroom or two bedrooms. Currently, the treasurer wants to change that rule based on the size of the apartment. If …
Q. Hello, I am a shareholder of a two bedroom co-op. There are two occupants of the co-op unit under me. One goes to work, while the other individual is a malingerer. Neither is of the mindset “live and let live.” Neither has a problem …
Q. There is a situation with mice in my co-op complex. A shareholder on the first floor told the super she had been seeing mice in her unit. He said he would call a pest control company, but they never showed up. The shareholder contacted…
Q. Can an election for the purpose of electing board members be held if there is not a quorum? —Need a Primer A. “In order to conduct any business at a shareholder’s meeting, there must be a …
Q. Why are co-op board minutes so sparse that others who read them—shareholders, lawyers, brokers—have no real idea what goes on at meetings? Our minutes are routinely ‘sanitized’ to leave out any troublesome issues, any comments by vario…
Q. “I live in a building with storage lockers for cooperators on the ground floor and one storage locker on each floor. All the lockers are closed, so the contents are not visible. The building porters inspect the rooms in which the locke…
Q. I am a shareholder and current member of the board of directors running for reelection. At the elections, we did not have a quorum, and the other members decided to keep the elections open for a month. So the ballots were given to mana…
Q. We recently had to vote to remove our board president from his position, because he was taking small amounts of funds on a regular basis. He said it was all ‘petty cash reimbursements,’ but he never told the board or treasurer about ma…