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> Join the conversationThere is a small yard behind our co-op building. Is it permissible for the board to give the shareholder whose apartment is immediately adjacent to the yard exclusive use of this space without charging some sort of license fee / issuing additional shares to cover the space? If this has been the practice for many years, but a new shareholder objects, can the board reclaim the space for common use?
> Join the conversation Comments (1)We have several driveways in front of our buildings...with 10 owners who have spots they purchased...are these driveways to be considered as part of the overall square footage of their unit and thus included in calculations of common charges? Thx.
> Join the conversation Comments (2)
Our building created a list serve and we have created folders for various shareholder correspondence.
Numerous shareholders complained about loosing yearly financial statements and it was requested to post them on the listserve. Board complained that they didn't want this paperwork which was already distributed on this forum. Do you think this is a good way to have a paper trail? Why would the board not want some type of transparency?
We, as 25 year veterans in the refinancing of cooperative underlying mortages, should be given more attention as to our acute skills and contacts for these type transactions. We here at Richland Equity Resources Corp DBA the richland group. have closed 5 deals in 2011-12 ranging from $1.6- 3.2 million with LOC's when any Board member or a tagential entity could not have obtained the rate and terms we did due to out full understang of how the lenders operates, which ones participate, and our focus on The Cooperatives' need only.
A post for thought
the memeo is under atttorney generals office co-op defining R-15. Holder of unsold shares from 1987.
it is the definition of holders of unsold shares.i
can't cut and paste in nor link to it, tomorrow i will try again, i will have to convert it to a different format.
basicially from what i can understand, not all buyers of unsold shares become owners of unsold shares, they need to pass a lot of stringent requirements.
So it l;ook like , if i come close to understanding this, which i probably don't, that just because a sponsot sells unsold shares to an buyer and they continue to rent it to the tenent in occupancy, upon the tenent in occupancy passing away or moving out, the new owner cannot claim it is unsols shares, they must deal with it as any other shareowner, the unsold share clause has ended, unless they meet the requirements , such as have a bond posted and a lot of things the sponsor was required to have.
if my interpretation is correct, it is unbelievable that this has remained secret from the shareholders for 25 plus years.
Bit like the bills before the senate that would help shareholders, how many boards have performed what i would consider to be fiduciary duty and inform the shareholders of these proposed legislation , which would be to the benefit og the However we have receive a lot on mailings on our postage dime, asking us to vote a certain way or contact our politicians to vote down certain bills that may hurt the real estate industry.
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One of the board member in my building has started to knock on doors trying to have residents switch from coned to an alternative supplier. That BM (acting alone) is associated with the electrical company. There is obviously monetary gains in those transaction. Q: Isn't this borderline unethical, or even illegal? Using your position and influence ("trust") to basically "sell" a product to unsuspecting shareholders.
I do expect/hope that this will fire back, since no alt. electrical supplier can match or beat coned rates at this time. (no contract + variable rates = disaster)
Thanks
I'm a new Board Director and I was wondering if other directors could tell me what monthly financials you get for review. I was told by a fellow SH, who also has another home, that Board members at his other residence get the following information below. I have not been given this information monthly, except I was shown a comparative budget from 2009 thru 2012, budgeted vs actual and a profit & Loss budget vs Actual for Jan thru June. I feel we should be getting more reports from our manager monthly, like the ones below, but our Board has never gotten these in the past. Need help here.
This is a sample of what another Board gets each month, look familiar to most of you?
1. list of bad debt - back rent as well as back maintenance amounts showing the person in arrears and how much 30/60/90/120 days out
2. Balance Sheet for the prior month showing current assets and liability
3. operating account income statement that shows Income and operating expense as YTD actual vs budgeted the variance and the yrly budget totals
4. Disbursement Register - that shows the accounts , with descriptions, posting date, invoice #, invoice date and amount
Several months ago, bedbugs appeared in one apartment in our building. We took immediate steps to eradicate them and prevent them from returning in that apartment and neighboring apartments, as required by NYC law. Follow up visits by the exterminator found the apartments to be clean. The company used a "bedbug sniffing" dog to check out other apartments as well, and they were clean.
Now, the same apartment has bedbugs again. We again took immediate steps to bring back the exterminator. Here's my question: the warranty on the exterminator's work has expired, so we had to pay for that visit and are in for another expensive treatment of neighboring apartments, even though the exterminating company feels only the one apartment needed treatment. (I believe NYC law requires us to go full steam ahead again.) In any case, do you think the repeat shareholder should shoulder the costs?
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A reverse mortgage should be an income source of last resort. There are a lot of pitfalls with taking out a reverse mortgage in its current form, not the least of which are the high fees to the banks and mortgage brokers. Here are links to two articles describing some of the cautions and drawbacks of a reverse mortgage, and what will hopefully be done in the future to remedy the abuses:
http://www.wggb.com/2012/09/04/stronger-oversight-of-reverse-mortgages-needed-to-protect-seniors/
http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/real-estate/the-pitfalls-of-reverse-mortgages/
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