Category: Q&A

Q&A Q&A: Giving an Association's Streets To a Township
2011 May Q&A: Giving an Association's Streets To a Township

Q Our association will be voting soon on giving our streets to our township. The township will repay us for snow removal. My question: is it generally a good thing to give your streets away? —Mulling Municipal Reimbursement …

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Q&A Q&A: Defining a Service Animal
2011 May Q&A: Defining a Service Animal

Q Do you have any information/documents that define the legal standards for a service animal? We have a pending request based on loosely-worded physician prescriptions and are concerned that approval of such may open the door for o…

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Q&A Q&A: Dealing with a Difficult Board?
2011 April Q&A: Dealing with a Difficult Board?

Q I live in a co-op building in New Jersey with a seemingly tyrannical board that displays arrogance and disregards shareholders’ concerns. For example, the board appointed a shareholder of their choosing, to the vacant seat, stating to…

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Q&A Q&A: Freedom of Information?
2011 March Q&A: Freedom of Information?

Q Recently our board gave us a financial statement that, in my opinion, simply didn't add up. A friend of mine went to the town and school district to get the proper numbers and we found out that we were “not” given the correct infor…

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Q&A Q&A: Freedom of Information?
2011 February Q&A: Freedom of Information?

Q Recently our board gave us a financial statement that, in my opinion, simply didn't add up. A friend of mine went to the town and school district to get the proper numbers and we found out that we were “not” given the correct infor…

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Q&A Q&A: Creating a Condo Association
2011 February Q&A: Creating a Condo Association

Q I live in Newark and I just bought a two-family home in a condo. However, when the developer built these, he was the actual association and then along the years with all the mortgage defaults, things got a little off and the condo has…

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Q&A Q&A: Buying Without a Warranty
2010 December Q&A: Buying Without a Warranty

Q I am buying a condo, the developer wants me to waive the implied warranty of habitability? Is this normal? His reason is that they have rehabbed the building and didn't build it from scratch. Should I be concerned? —Prospec…

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Q&A Q&A: Enforcing Noise Rules
2010 Nov Q&A: Enforcing Noise Rules

Q I live in a three-floor, four-room,30-unit condo, mostly 50-plus, with the only family with children (ages two and three) living on the third floor above me. For the past year there has been an excessive amount of constant running; …

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Q&A Q&A: What to Do About a Law-Breaking Board?
2010 October Q&A: What to Do About a Law-Breaking Board?

Q We have a condo board which allegedly ignores, breaks, and applies bylaws inconsistently. They also make up bylaws, have not monitored our insurance policies for at least two years and have not taken action on a couple of safety i…

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