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Meeting Minutes: How Much Detail Goes In? To Whom Should Minutes Go Out?

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that minutes be made available. Bylaws are almost always silent on the issue, too. As Weinstein sees it ... . This purchase is more than just buying a home, it's investing in a housing corporation. Articles, here ... an apartment, it's important to take the request the seriously. "If the board declines," says David L. Berkey ... provide them? Or zealously guard them? And just how much detail should your minutes include anyway?

Why You Need To Update Your Co-op's Proprietary Lease — Today!

of people abstain, it's effectively a negative vote." The politics of it have to be carefully managed, she

Fallout from the Economic Slump: Surviving 2012's New Financial Realities

New York City

and cooperatives. It is all too easy to forge invoices, checks, bank statements and other financial records ... to be solved. Whether it's a question of how to raise more money, how to deal with angry owners, or the best ... Money, or more specifically the lack of it, was the main problem most co-op and condo boards faced

What Happens when NYC Won't Clear a Stop-Work Order That's Been Resolved?

New York City

. The contractor neglected to get a weekend work permit, someone reported it, and the DOB “Emergency Response Team ... to be solved. Whether it's a question of how to raise more money, how to deal with angry owners, or the best ... When is a stop-work order not a stop-work order? When it’s resolved, right? For most co

Co-op / Condo News: Hospital Hell, Rockaway Strike, Shabbos Elevators

) "Condo Owners: New Tappan Zee Bridge Looms Too Large" by Phil Reisman (The Journal News, Westchester ... -and-view-blocking building addition in any other way, so its neighboring co-op is just out of luck. That will end well ... and residents. This week: There's something wrong when it's headline news that "Brooklyn Man with Damaged Condo

Every Building Has One: How to Get Gadflies to Shut up and Pitch In

as allies. "They often get on the board and feel like they have a better way to run it," observes Carl

Out of Date UNABRIDGED

Magazine Article by Frank Lovece on March 01, 2012

” of it – how do you do it? “Part of the process of amending the proprietary lease is managing the politics

The Gadfly UNABRIDGED

Magazine Article by Tom Soter on March 01, 2012

Howard received just one call from the board. The president phoned him to say, “You are the only one

Arrears in a Condo; Benchmarking UNABRIDGED

Magazine Article by Robert Tierman, Geoffrey Mazel on March 01, 2012

to try to collect this money, and we should just let their banks foreclose and put in some new owners

Stopping a Stop-Work UNABRIDGED

Magazine Article by Tom Soter on March 01, 2012

is it still showing up on our building’s DOB page and how can we get rid of it? ... ’t someone just read the DOB website, see that it’s been resolved, and remove the red banner?” “That kind

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