Co-op / Condo News: Board Favoritism Backfires, Child-Bias Punished

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.

• "Co-op City Board Member Leticia Morales Booted from Townhouse over Favoritism Rap" by Daniel Beekman (New York Daily News). See also Habitat article "Corruption or Honest Mistake, Co-op City Scandal Taints Its Board"

• "Condo Group to Pay $150,000 in Child-Bias Case: Families were fined for using common areas as play space" by  Jenifer B. McKim (The Boston Globe)

• "Condo Associations Get Creative in Punishing Delinquents" by Polyana da Costa (Daily Business Review)

• "Back In Black – The Continuing Trials and Travails of a Black Water Cleanup Effort in a Condominium Association" (Ryan Poliakoff on Condo & HOA Living blog)

• "[City Councilman] Halloran Calls on Con Ed to Restore Co-op's Gas" by Nathan Duke (Douglaston Patch) and "Halloran Addresses Gas Service Issues at Douglaston Co-op" (The Queens Gazette)

Buying and Selling...

• "Buying New? "Special Risks" Can Keep You from Losing your Pants" by Teri Karush Rogers (BrickUnderground.com)

• "The Other White Meat: Condo and Co-op Rentals" (TheApplePeeled.com)

• "Kelsey Grammer's Apartment Hunt Ends at the Vision Machine" by Sara Polsky (Curbed.com)

• "A Designer Expands Greenwich Village Digs," on Isaac Mizrahi buying a third connecting apartment at 59 W. 12th St. condominium, by Josh Barbanel & Craig Karmin (The Wall Street Journal)

Board Issues from Around the Country and More...

• "Property Managers Make Money off Condos' Insurance" by Julie Patel (The Palm Beach Post)

• "Lac La Biche Condo 'A Nightmare Without End'" by Darcy Henton (Edmonton Journal)

• "Financial Woes Spark Revolt at Hopkins Condo" by James Eli Shiffer (Star Tribune, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minn.)

• "Family Feud Over Condo Led to Eviction Shooting" by Todd Wright (NBCMiami.com)

• "No Harm, No Fowl – Bird Man: Condo association agrees to stop using hallucinogen" by O’Ryan Johnson (Boston Herald)

WebCitation archives:

"Co-op City" • "Condo Group" • "Delinquents" • "Back in Black" • "Halloran Calls" "Halloran Addresses" • "Buying New" • "White Meat" • "Kelsey Grammer" • "Designer" • "Insurance" • "Lac La Biche" • "Hopkins" • "Family Feud" • "Bird Man"