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Category: Q&A

Q&A Are You Covered?
2024 October Q&A: Coverage Required?

Q. My co-op board just voted to require all shareholders to buy homeowners insurance. I’d like to find out if that’s a common thing, but I don’t know who to ask. Thanks!                                 —Can They Do That? A. “Requiring…

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2024 October Q&A: Tenant Obligations During Foreclosure

Q. One of our condo units that the owner was renting out to a tenant is now in foreclosure. But before the unit went into foreclosure, the owner (who has been missing in action) was behind on the common charges and the condo board was tak…

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2024 September Q&A: Co-op Tenant Evicted

Q. In 1999 I inherited a low-income HDFC co-op, which at that time the president told me I could rent out. When my relative passed away in 1998, I had just bought myself a condominium, so I took the president at his word and rented the co…

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Q&A Q&A: Rent Stabilization
2024 September Q&A: Rent Stabilization

Q. I live in a co-op with some unsold shared apartments. This month a woman in a rent stabilized apartment passed away. Will her apartment remain rent stabilized, or can the owner transfer it to market value?                             …

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Q&A Symbol for increasing or decreasing fees. Hand turns a dice and changes the direction of an arrow. Dice form the word "FEE".
2024 September Q&A: Late Increase Notice

Q. I signed a contract for a condo unit at the end of November 2023. There was an increase in the maintenance in February 2024, so it’s likely they got notice of this last December. Unfortunately I wasn’t given notice of this $55 increase…

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2024 September Q&A: Mitchell-Lama Unit Rules

Q. I have lived in a Mitchell-Lama co-op since 1992 and never received a copy of the complete house rules. Recently I was assaulted by a neighbor’s husband on co-op property; he is not a tenant on record, yet lives here and is a very dang…

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2024 August Q&A: Independent Board Election Review?

Q. I am a shareholder in a Mitchell-Lama cooperative. If I have concerns about the results of the board of directors’ election, how can I get an independent person to recount the votes and confirm the tally? Management and the Board of Di…

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2024 August Q&A: Forcing Out Co-op Sublease Tenants

Q. A co-op owner purchased her unit in 2005 and has been subleasing it to the same tenant since 2011. The co-op board recently passed an amendment to the bylaws that states that an owner cannot sublease a unit for more than two years, and…

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Q&A Repair work at neighbours. Irritated young man relaxing on couch cover ears with pillows annoyed by noisy neighbors suffer from headache wish silence. Thin walls at home flat without sound insulation
2024 July Q&A: Curbing the Complaints

Q. The owner in the condo unit below mine is a nightmare: slamming/banging noise at all hours, screaming fights, rude guests loitering in front of the building. When I first complained to the board, they served him a cease and desist noti…

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Q&A Bad Neighbour
2024 June Q&A: Curbing the Complaints

Q. We have a shareholder who has filed several frivolous and vindictive complaints against the cooperative with various city agencies. While he always loses, these complaints have cost the cooperative money in attorneys’ fees. His latest …

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