The legislative season is upon us, and in many states, bills specifically dealing with co-ops, condos and HOAs are wending their way through the legislative process. Even when bills aren't aimed directly at those forms of home ownership, ma…
So, you’ve decided to buy an apartment in the tri-state area. Congratulations—that’s the easy part. Now you must choose whether to buy into a cooperative or a condominium. That’s harder. Significant differences exist between the two model…
Whether you serve on the board of a co-op, condo or HOA, chances are you and your fellow community administrators are volunteers. Perhaps you're fortunate enough that you or one of your colleagues has professional legal expertise to bring t…
No one likes a lawsuit. Whether filing one or finding yourself on the receiving end of one, they can cause stress, anxiety and an upending of daily life. They can be expensive, take months—even years—to resolve, and often result in hurt fee…
It is said that the only two things that you can truly count on are death and taxes but if you own a co-op or condo and haven’t adequately prepared for your own eventual demise, you can also count on your passing causing even more grief for…
Though many—in fact, most—co-op buildings flatly forbid shareholders from subletting their apartments to rental tenants, many co-op (and many more condo) buildings have populations of subtenants residing in them. Sometimes an apartment owne…
Not every condominium or homeowners’ association is going to run afoul of the law—the happy truth is that litigation and legal trouble are relatively rare occurrences. However, even the most upstanding board in New York City must navigate a…
According to the Washington, DC-based online database, the Gun Violence Archive, a mass shooting is an incident in which four or more individuals are wounded or killed. In 2015 alone, the U.S. faced 372 such incidents, leaving 475 people de…
Q. For many years, I’ve had a long-standing leak in my bathroom through no fault of my own. The shareholders above me it seems are contributing to the water problem. The couple’s son, I believe, loves to run a bath for as long as two hour…
Thousands of board members, managers and building owners packed the Meadowlands Expo Center on Wednesday, May 11th for The Cooperator Expo-New Jersey, an annual one-day event now in its ninth year. The Expo, a fixture on the business calend…