Forum: Maintenance
October 14, 2009
Moldy Smell
The basement of my building flooded over the summer, and post clean up effort we have been smelling mold. I have read about mold to a degree and most sites recommend using borate based products to eliminate it. Any advice on what to buy?
October 7, 2009
How To Compare Maintenance
Can anyone recommend a tool or resource or database for doing neighborhood-by-neighborhood comparisons of coop maintenance fees? I live in a coop in PLG, and we have a lot of conversations about whether or not our maintenance is reasonable, and it would be nice to be able to get beyond anecdotal evidence.
Let me describe the thing that would make me happiest: A spreadsheet, where each row was a New York City neighborhood, and where each column was a category of coop building ("large, w/ doorman," "small, w/o non-doorman," etc.), and the cells contained a rough estimate of average or reasonable maintenance figures for that kind of building in that neighborhood ... perhaps expressed in dollars of maintenance per square foot of apartment.
(Apparently what would make me happiest is a robot real-estate broker.)
Thanks, everyone.