Co-op/Condo News: Art Attack, Rachel Maddow, $1 Foreclosure Condos, More

Read all the latest co-op board and condo board news in Habitat's weekly Monday News Roundup! Also included: Permanent archival links. If a link ever goes dead, you'll still be able to read the backup at WebCitation.org.

• "Street Artist Gets Apology [from condo board president] for Destroyed Work on Upper West Side" by Leslie Albrecht (DNAinfo.com)

• "Boca Raton Condo Association Sued over Ban on Children" by Wayne Roustan ( South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

• "New Law Calls [Connecticut] Condo Boards to Account" by Lisa Prevost ( The New York Times) and "More Rights for Owners of Condos" by George Gombossy ( New Haven Register)

• "Turning Down a Buyer Who Already Lives in the Building" (BrickUnderground.com)

• "Trapped Between Two Rival Board Neighbors" (BrickUnderground.com)

Buying and Selling...

• "Federal Judge Rules District Condo Buyers Can Get Deposits Back in Landmark ILSA Ruling" by David Jones (TheRealDeal.com) and "Condo Buyers Find Escape Clause" by Craig Karmin ( The Wall Street Journal)

• "What Closing Costs are Negotiable?" (Brownstoner.com forum)

• "When You Open Your House, You Open Your Life" by Malcolm Carter (Service You Can Trust blog)

• "Apartment Sellers Insist on Exposure, of the Feet" by Christine Haughney ( The New York Times)

• "Up on the Roof," on what buyers should know about condo roof decks, by Ronald H. Gitter (CoopAndCondo.com)

• "Check Out Rachel Maddow's New $1.25 Million N.Y.C. Apartment" by Eunice Oh ( People)

• "[Manhattan] Luxury Condos Asking the Feds for Help" by Juan DeJesus (NBCNewYork.com via MSNBC.com)

Board Issues from Around the Country...

• "Cambridge Resident Complains of Condo Assoc.’s Alleged Embezzling" by Auditi Guha ( Cambridge [Mass.] Chronicle)

• "South Florida Homeowners Associations Get Tough in Collecting Delinquent Fees" by Paul Owers and Lisa J. Huriash ( South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

• "Brockton Mayor’s Condo Complex Owes $17,000 for Water" by Amy Littlefield  ( The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass.)

• "Foreclosures Hurt Condos" by Rob Perez ( Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

WebCitation archives:

"Street Artist" • "Luxury Condos" • "Turning Down" • "Foreclosures" • "Trapped" • "Federal Judge" • "Closing Costs" • "Escape Clause" • "Open...House" • "Feet" • "Roof" • "Rachel Maddow" • "Children" • "New Law" • "More Rights" • "Cambridge" • "Delinquent Fees" • "$17,000 for Water"

Images courtesy Hani Shihada (top) and NBC-Universal (above)