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					  <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Right to See Project Documents]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1741/1/QampA-Right-to-See-Project-Documents/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[ My co-op is about to engage in a multi-million dollar energy upgrade project.
 The board president has decided to not allow me&#8212;a newly elected member of the board&#8212; and any shareholders access to review the documents on this project. However,
 the board has given one shareholder complete access to all documents pertaining
 to this project. This individual has all the documents and is privately meeting
 with the contractors on this project. What can the other interested
 shareholders and I do to obtain this information? 
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Phyllis Weisberg, Esq.)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:51:36 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Transfer on Inside Sales]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1740/1/QampA-Transfer-on-Inside-Sales/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[If a building decides to adopt a transfer tax, can they impose a tax when an
 apartment is sold to an outsider but exempt from the tax when selling to an
 insider? The apartments that have been combined with other apartments, (three
 bedrooms or more), are those which are most likely to be sold to insiders.
 Virtually all combined apartments are currently, or have been in the past,
 owned by members of the Board of Directors. 
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Paul Bercovici, Esq.)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:46:12 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Without Board Consent]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1739/1/QampA-Without-Board-Consent/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Three shareholders organized the development of 861 square feet of unused
 courtyard space behind their building, after having surveyed the building for
 interest (57 percent of shareholders responded&#8212;of which 70 percent were in favor). 
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Mary L. Kosmark, Esq.)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:43:23 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Vendors Only Policy]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1738/1/QampA-Vendors-Only-Policy/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[I currently run my family&#8217;s construction business and have been doing so since I left management business
 over four years ago. Recently, I was asked to renovate an apartment for a
 client in a luxurious East Side apartment building. The building is a
 cooperative and the renovation entailed the complete remodeling of a bathroom
 and a kitchen. Upon receiving the alteration agreement from the resident we
 prepared all of the required paperwork, i.e. permits, licenses and insurance.
 We were advised to bring our paperwork to a meeting in the management office
 where a board member&#8212;a member of the management team and a representative from the building staff&#8212;would be there to review the paperwork and go over the plans and discuss the
 project with us.  ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Bruce A. Cholst Esq.)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:40:07 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Divine Profits]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1387/1/Divine-Profits/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret&#8212;in fact, it&#8217;s been a
 problem for years: residential developers in Manhattan and other hot areas
 like Downtown Brooklyn are running out of space.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Raanan Geberer)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[What Will 2007 Bring?]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1386/1/What-Will-2007-Bring/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Mortgage financiers are gearing up for a different
 lending landscape in 2007. To succeed in the coming year, lenders will need
 to pay attention, look around and get in front of trends. &nbsp;Here are a
 few trends we can already foresee:
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Lee Howlett)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Education is Key]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1385/1/Education-is-Key/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[One of the major initiatives which will soon benefit
 New York City&#8217;s co-op and condominium landscape is the ongoing effort
 to certify the resident managers and superintendents that live and work in
 city housing.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Debra A. Estock)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Retrofit and Reduce]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1384/1/Retrofit-and-Reduce/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[There is a tendency among many co-op boards, building
 managers and developers to consider &#8220;green&#8221; building
 technologies as extras&#8212;or as luxuries that have nothing to do with
 their need to reduce costs.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Richard Cherry)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Communication and Optimism]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1383/1/Communication-and-Optimism/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[There was a time when many of the city&#8217;s key
 resident management/superintendent associations didn&#8217;t communicate
 much. The Manhattan Resident Managers Club, Inc., the Metropolitan Building
 Managers of New York, the Scandinavian-American Building Managers Guild,
 the Superintendents Technical Association (STA), the New York Building
 Manager&#8217;s Association, and the Hibernia Provident Society got
 together about as often as Donald Trump and Billy Crystal sit in bleacher
 seats at Yankee Stadium, even though they share many of the same members.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Gregg Laskoski)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Answering Westchester's Questions]]></title>
					  <link>http://cooperator.com/articles/1382/1/Answering-Westchesters-Questions/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Westchester County is known for, among other things,
 its grand, multi-million dollar mansions and historic homes found in its
 posh communities such as Scarsdale, Bronxville and Brewster. Many of these
 homes were built in the 1950s, when the economy was prosperous. That
 decade, World War II veterans returned to the job market and started
 families. To answer the need for more housing for these new families, many
 high-rise apartments, single-family homes and duplexes were also built.
 Westchester&#8217;s website, www.westchestergov.com, coins it as &#8220;a
 new era of suburbanization&#8221; for the American family.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Lisa Iannucci)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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