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How would any of them know the size of someone else’s mortgage??? Do they really go on propertyshark to look these things up??? These people seem to have serious problems. And that person that owns 2 units, if there are chores being doled out, needs to do twice as many.
> There are around a dozen shareholders in the building.
Sounds like you need to move to a larger building with a management company. I’ll second Kens and recommend Ditmas Park and Kensington.
Yes, dibs, you’re right: I need to ditch the lawyer and hire the professional services of some of my wife-beater wearing, meat cleaver wielding associates!
What got me thinking about moving was the Kens FSBO in today’s sales thread. It sold for around half of what my place would fetch, and it is lovely. I’d kill for a balcony I could have morning coffee on.
OTOH, I don’t want to feel like I’m moving because I’m surrendering to these asshats in my building.
The economic bottom line is that because I bought cheaply in 1995, I own my place free and clear. They do not. I wonder if other coop buildings are experiencing a similar antagonistic “split” between tenants.
Legion,
Occasionally seeking the democratic nomination doesn’t place a candidate on the left. If you’ve followed LaRouche’s rantings over the last 30 years, a fairr eading woudl suggest he mostly leans waaaayyyy to the right, with eprhaps a bit of overlap where the loony right meets the loony left. Not too many lefties were big followers fo Edward Teller in the 80s and thought Reagan’s Star Wars didn’t go far enough, but there were the LaRouchies in all the big airports trying to drum up support for all kinds of wacky e-beam programs. Definitely an unhinged cold warrior. Hard to place LL on the left. I also wouldn’t hold either party to the strange characters who show up every four years in either set of presidential primaries, garnering 58 votes in NH, a mention in a Saturday feature story on nutjobs running for president, only to disappear into the ether until the next leap year.
I am not the one who made a monolithic assertion about the republican party’s singular claim to the civil rights mantle through the 60s. I thought you painted with far too broad a brush, and I pointed it out. My point is simply that history is complicated, and you do your other arguments a disservice by making such sweeping claims for history while ignoring complciated facts.
But montrose is right — no one is going to convince anyone here. Which is why no one can figure out why you have decided to post long diatribes on the OT about health care.
Get some triad members to “talk” to the other shareholders.
what kind of work are you talking about? like taking out trash and mopping the floors? that’s so riff-raff!
*rob*
WonTon, that sounds ridiculous. Move to Ditmas Park or Kensington. You wont have those preppy Park Slope co-op problems ;o).
Oy vey, I am turning into 11217 for Kensington now (I should change my login name to 11218). Quick, pass me the blonde wig.
There are around a dozen shareholders in the building. Some own more than one apartment, but are not required to do double work duty. I’ve actually been on the board a number of times over the 15 years I’ve owned this place, but I can’t do it now because of my schedule.
The building used to be a lot more laid back, but the price rises in PS brought in a very different type of tenant. Now everybody spends most of their time bitching about who hasn’t done enough work. But they’re too stretched financially with big mortgages, so nobody wants to just hire a managing agent already.
And yes, I’ve hired a lawyer…