Co-op / Condo News: Pit Bulls, Poodles, Private Eyes & Printing-House Perfume
July 29, 2013 — Recent news affecting co-op / condo buyers, sellers, boards and residents. This week, a Battery Park condo board wants two pit bulls that terrorized a Yorkie removed, while a banker jumps out a window when his Fifth Avenue co-op board wants his poodles ousted. Oh, and also because he's facing a huge tax bill. And speaking of ousted, a rental-building owner is the latest to use a private detective to evict an illegal hotelier. Plus, for condo and co-op boards, we've news of a disaster-grant bill two Congressmen will introduce tomorrow, a report on luxury co-ops and condos being undertaxed and a West Village condo with a truly creative idea — making your lobby smell upscale!
Read all the latest co-op /condo news for buyers, sellers and board members 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 / Condo Buying, Selling, Living...
- "Condo Board Wants to Boot Two Pit Bulls Terrorizing a Luxury Lower Manhattan Building" by Matthew J. Perlman and Barbara Ross (New York Daily News) and "Pit-Bull Fight at Luxe Condos" by Julia Marsh and Gillian Kleiman (New York Post)
- "Banker Jumps Out of His Seventh-Floor Window Following Fight with Co-op Board over Dogs — and Lives" by Kirstan Conley, Amber Sutherland and Jeane MacIntosh (New York Post) and "Hospitalized Banker Leapt from Building over Prospect He Could Lose Dogs, Family Says: 'He Was Really Distraught'" by Vera Chinese, Barry Paddock and Daniel Beekman (New York Daily News)
- "Nolita Landlords Say Tenant Earned $500K over 4 Years by Illegally Renting Out Apartment as a NYC 'Hotel Room' — Used Private Eye Posing as Tourist to Out Sublet" by Julia Marsh (New York Post)
- "Water Damage in a Co-op Building / Explaining Capital-Gains Taxes" by Jay Romano (The New York Times)
- "Win Over an HOA, Condo or Co-op Board" by Kim Fulscher (Bankrate.com)
Co-op / Condo Board Issues...
- "Bill for Co-op/Condo Federal Disaster Grants" to be introduced in House of Representatives tomorrow, by Maura McDermott (Newsday)
- "New York City Co-ops Still Scandalously Undertaxed, Furman Center Finds" by Stephen Jacob Smith (The New York Observer) and "NYC's High-End Co-ops, Condos Taxed Well Beneath Market Value, Study Finds" by Julie Strickland (TheRealDeal.com)
- "Printing House Condos Launch Signature Scent" by Hayley Kaplan (TheRealDeal.com)
- "Ask An Expert: How Do You Fire a Super Who Belongs to the Union?" by Teri Karush Rogers (BrickUnderground.com)
WebCitation archives:
Two Pit Bulls • Pit-Bull Fight • Banker Jumps • Hospitalized Banker • • Nolita Landlords •Water Damage / Capital Gains • Win Over • • Disaster Grants • Scandalously Undertaxed • High-End • Printing House • Ask an Expert
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