Co-op/Condo News: Bad Board, Bad Neighbors and Look! Matt Damon!
NYC: April 26, 2010 — Recent news of note for co-op and condo boards. Last week's doorman strike being averted, we turn now to real news: Matt Damon may have bought a West End Avenue co-op penthouse! Elsewhere on the Web, we find an ethically questionable board, some welcome help from REBNY, condo renters running riot and much more. Read all the latest co-op and condo news quick 'n' easy on the Habitat weekly Monday News Roundup!
- "Co-op Board Ethics" thread (BrickUnderground.com forum)
- "Co-op Boards Get Helping Hand from REBNY: Group issues new guidelines to streamline, clarify co-op shares transfer" by James Comtois ( Crain's New York Business)
- "Hitting the Magic Number: More condos start to reach the 51 percent sold mark" by Candace Taylor ( The Real Deal)
- "The Right to Rent" your condo apartment, by Jay Romano ( The New York Times), paired with "Next-door Condo Renters from Hell" (BrickUnderground.com)
- "When a Co-op Grows Taller" by Jay Romano ( The New York Times)
- "Bushwick Luxury Condos Turn into Halfway House for Drug Addicts Run by Paroled Felon" by Barry Paddock (New York Daily News)
- "Rumormongering: Matt Damon Buying at 535 West End Avenue?" by Joey Arak (Curbed.com)