I was at the CNYC thing this past weekend, and went to the new technology panel. Someone from Habitat was there and mentioned the New Products they have on the front page of the website. I was looking through it and there's a lot of interesting looking stuff. I was wondering if any other boardmembers have used anhy of the new products there. Is it a useful resource to look at now and then?
can anyone out there please help me???
i have been in my co-op for 2 years now and have experienced nothing but heartache.
i have been complaining about mold for 2 years now around my air conditioner and have not gotten anyone to come look at until last week. when someone did come take a look at courtesy of the board,not only did they not fix the mold but they said it was because of my airconditioner sleeve. they took out my air conditioner changed the sleeve and left my air conditioner sitting on the floor. they refused to put it back in. they said the board told them not to put it back in. THEY NEVER TOLD ME THIS UPON THEM COMING IN AT ALL. HE TOLD ME HE WOULD PUT IT BACK IMMEDIATELY. they have also complained that i am using a 220 volt amp to run my air conditioner which was allready established before i moved in and one that they have seen during 3 inspections they have done. They are abusing thier power in order for their electrician and air conditioner people to get paid.
CAN SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!
Hi everyone,
Several shareholders in my building have received foreclosure notices from the bank saying the coop owes new york state. I believe this is overdue water bills which we pay off each month.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Any ideas how to solve this beyond paying off the back bills? Is there some sort of work out the building can do with the water company?
We are not in a financial position to pay off the water bill in full but we do not want the bank to foreclose on individual apartments. We have our annual board meeting tomorrow and i want to provide some direction to shareholders who have received notices. Any advice is appreciated.
Our small co-op has a terrible rear yard neighbor. It's a privately-owned 5-story tenement with a ground floor commercial tenant which is a Chinese restaurant. We've tried to call NYC agencies about the multiple noise, sanitation complaints, but have had not luck with the sanitation problems. The restaurant has a 3-4 foot "alley" as a rear yard and they have turned it into an outdooor storage area. There are boxes of empty beer bottles, and garbage stored there permenantly. They have gerry-rigged a cardboard and plywoord "shanty" roof over the area and keep it weighted down with buckets. Isn't it illegal for them to block egress in case of a fire? There is also a very bad cooking odor migration happening that causes our rear shareholders real concern. The managing agent of the rental building does not care what his tenant's do--we guess they pay a decent rent to him. Anyone know who we can call to issue possible violations? Their air handlers and ventilation on lower rear roof is old and noisey and unsightly as well. They leave old pails and brooms on their lower roof which again, is horrible to look at. They are the ONLY bad neighbor out of 5 surrounding buildings.
We live in condo in Brooklyn. Our neighbors upstairs make a lot of noise. They have very active small child which running around and playing heavy ball. Whey have big dog which running through the apartment with big noise. Whey have terrible working washing machine which make not only noise also vibration. They band the main door and our drawer fall down.
We try to resolve this problem. But we receive biggest noise. They start to jumping and play loud music. Our fixture vibrating and ready to fall down.
We are senior citizen. We can not sleep at night. I have heart implant. Every week I have to call to ambulance.
How we can solve our problem?
Can a board member work for the same management company that oversees his condominium? And is this considered a conflit of interest? The board memeber is presently unemployed due to the down market and was considering working for the condominium management company.
Please advise
Thank you
We recently switched from frontage billing to metered billing and are considering whether to have one of these water auditing companies review our situation and see whether we can realize any savings in the future.
I have 2 questions: 1) How can such a company determine that we can obtain a savings in the future when we have no baseline water meter readings in the first place? I note that under the proposed contracts, these companies will claim a percentage of future savings for a period of years. How can we/they tell that we wouldn't have cut our bills merely by switching to metered billing in the first place?
2) What is the range of percentages and time periods usually demanded/requested by these companies for obtaining prospective water cost reductions? Do we have any bargaining power?
We have a couple of outdoor spaces which come with certain units in our co-op. They are the source of noise complaints that come from neigboring units. Is there a noise curfew/abatement in NYC in general that would apply to these private outdoor spaces (they're balconies. Our house rules call for no loud playing of music etc after 10 PM at night until 8 AM. Does that apply to balconies, yards, private roof decks?
The board locked in last month for #4 oil at $2.48 (oil was higher then). Since oil has dropped over the past month and getting lower, we want to renegotiate the price by asking for a Blend and Extend contract. Has anyone done this before? What is your take on this?
Thanks
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Register here: http://www.cnyc.coop/events-registration.htm
Info here: http://www.habitatmag.com/publication_content/bulletin_board/28th_annual_cnyc_housing_conference
Here: 28th Annual CNYC Housing Conference
http://www.cnyc.coop
And here: The Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums hosts its 28th annual Housing Conference & Expo on Sunday, November 16, 2008. The region's largest and most venerable co-op / condo conference this year offers 75 seminars and workshops, plus 45 exhibits, covering the full spectrum of issues, concerns, products and services of interest to the New York City metropolitan area's boards, managing agents, real estate attorneys and others.
Go. You'll come away better equipped to deal with many issues....
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I'm interested in the table lamp that doubles as a security camera, which was in the New Products section maybe a month ago. (It's here: http://www.habitatmag.com/publication_content/previous_new_products/brickhouse_nightvision_dvr_spy_lamp)
Does anyone out there have experience with surreptitous security recording? I see security cameras hanging from buildings on the street all the time, without a sign saying "you are being videotaped." Do we need to put a sign in our lobby if we've got a security camera? Is the law different for an obvious security camera, no matter how small, or a hidden camera? A lot of elevators have essentially hidden cameras, with no "you are being videotaped" signs.
Before I go to the rest of my board, I want to have good information, and wanted to check with fellow board members before going to the board attorney and racking up fees.
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