Con Edison will soon have the additional gas capacity/pressure on the upper west side of NYC. If you have a building in the in the area of Broadway and 98th St...in either direction for several blocks and you initially were told that the cost to upgrade your service was too high you need to revisit this.
A building in the area with a $650,000 service upgrade price tag just had that eliminated due to the recent availability of sufficient gas.
Currently our co-op has a shareholder who is $9,000 in arrears. He is in default of his proprietary lease. He refinanced in 2004 but we do not have the recognition agreement from the bank.
Does anyone have advice on how to go about finding the information on the shareholders recognition agreement? I've looked on ACRIS. But even our attorney seems stumped.
Thank you for any info
Im the board president of a 30 unit condo complex in Queens. I am also one of the newest residents in the complex. The complex is only 14 years old but has been plagued by multiple recurring water leaks that are causing interior damage to about 10 units. After years of hiring contractors and spending tens of thousands of dollars for ineffective repairs, I convinced the board to hire an engineer to evaluate the problem. We received a full report outlining a number of problems to the common element including replacing flat roofs, repairs to the exterior facade and foundation work. The estimated cost of repairs was $500,000. The costs would require an assessment. To be reasonable we decided to break up the work in phases. With the first phase covering $200,000 of work. An assessment of roughly $6000/unit owner to be paid over 18 months was proposed. The owners are outraged and do not want to pay since only 1/3 of the units are directly affected (despite this being repairs of the common element which is a common expense per our by-laws).
Am I crazy for thinking that the proposed assessment is very reasonable and that the condo has no choice but to follow the engineer's report and do the repairs? How do i convince the angry masses that this is the condo's responsibility and failure to do the repairs will likely lead to lawsuits that we can not possibly win? There has only been one other prior major assessment since the development opened 14 years ago and the owners are used to not following up on repairs or paying for assessments to cover the costs of repairs.
Hi All,
We are looking to go for Leed certification. Does anyone have experience of going through the process? Does anyone have a suggestion or recommendation of an engineer or consultant who can assist us?
Thank You in advance
Call me, Don't Call me...it's entirely up to you. Yet please call someone....
If you are a multifamily firm gas building in Con Edison territory with 75 or more units there are insane incentives available for various energy efficiency measures.
Con Edison's Commercial & Industrial Energy Efficiency Program is offering incentives that frequently (but not always) exceed 50% of the total project cost for the installation of a Building Energy Management System (BEMS).
A Building Energy Management System in a qualifying building is ABSOLUTELY and investment and NOT an expense. Talk to your service company, talk to your property manager, talk to Con Edison (Green Team), talk to me....just talk to someone.
A Building Energy Management System in a building on firm gas with an incentive from Con Edison covering at least 40% of the project cost will deliver a return for investors in less than one (1) year.
An owner has water damage seeping from above unit (owned by board member). He refuses to grant access to fix the problem? Management keeps saying it will be taken care of - has gone on for months.
> Join the conversation Comments (3)the compressors on a ledge with about 3 feet behind it. Is this allowed by nyc building dept?
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Hi all...this is a bit complex, so I will do my best to be clear.
The main question is: To what extent does a condo board have the power/right to ensure that owners are following clearly stated state/city/regional housing laws?
Here are some examples:
There are mandated rules about what is considered to be an actual bedroom. In our complex, in units that do not have exterior sidewalls with windows, there is a smaller room that most people use as offices because they do not have the requisite window. However, we do know that some people are also using these as bedrooms. Are we, as a board, to assume that folks know the law and should follow it, without the board pushing the statute? Should we simply send out a reminder to all just for them to keep it in mind and then let it go? What is the right thing to do on the board's part?
We have also have an issue in several units where there are clearly more people living in apartments than are probably allowed by the law. Our first challenge is finding those laws (though we believe that the limit is two people per actual bedroom -- and that room has to be a bonafide bedroom with a window). These are duplex apartments, that are not supposed to have any bedroom spaces in the cellars (that is another issue we've been dealing with). One unit has three legitimate bedrooms, with about 12 people living in the entire apartment (illegally using the cellar). The other duplex is, by law, a two-bedroom (and the same issue with the cellar), that has about 13 people living in it. What the heck does a board do in this case? (Note that these families own these units.)
Finally, there is the barbecue law. We assume that everyone knows this. Perhaps they don't. Is it our role as the board to remind folks of this law? And, if people don't, then what?
I think part of the challenge is making sure the board is not power crazy...but when you start looking around at all of the broken rules, some with potential building-wide hazards, you wonder how much control the board needs to take? Can't a reminder/fyi be enough, and then the onus is on the unit owners if they "get caught?"
Thx for fielding this concern.
In our 48 co-op unit in Queens, our manager is sigining the checks for the building without showing the checks to the treasurer. I thought that only board members could sign the checks. Please, I need answers right away because I heard that the manager and the sponsor want to remove me from the Board. Thank you.
> Join the conversation Comments (2)At an annual meeting I asked who was the lady on the Board who I had not seen before, and why we did not have an election to replace the director. The management company stated that we did not need an election for a new director. This is a 48 unit building in Queens with the sponsor holding 10 or 11 units. Was management correct in saying that we do not need an election?
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Hi - thanks!! - do you think it will result in savings - and can be connected if within about two blocks?
Work Notice
Monday, July 16, 2012 to Saturday, July 21, 2012
West End Avenue between West 93rd and 94th Street
Monday-Friday, 9 am – 4 pm
Saturday, 8 am – 4 pm
Con Edison plans to install new gas facilities on the east side of West End Avenue between 93rd and 94th Street starting as early as Monday, July 16. This phase of the project is expected to be completed by October.
A second phase of the project is being planned to install new gas main between West End and Columbus Avenue. We will provide more details as soon as they are available.
Con Edison is working with building owners and the City of New York to convert large buildings that are currently burning #4 and #6 fuel oil to natural gas. This will reduce emissions and improve air quality. We apologize for any inconvenience associated with this construction project.
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