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From building repairs and maintenance, energy upgrades, insurance, lobby redesigns, accounting and financing - the challenges facing co-op and condominium board directors are endless. In this series, Habitat Magazine editors interview New York City experts to learn how problems have been solved at their client co-op and condo buildings. We take a deep dive into the issues being confronted, the possibilities for solutions, the costs, the challenges, and the outcomes. Habitat Magazine, founded in 1982, is the trusted resource for New York City co-ops and condo board directors. Visit us at www.habitatmag.com
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96 episodes
since Sept. 12, 2022
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A routine facade project turned into a $1.6 million garage overhaul at a Queens condo, and the board never saw the biggest surprise coming. Michel Monteiro, senior project engineer at Cowley Engineering, walks through what happened once crews started working on the concrete. He explains why the wor…
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A Local Law 11 facade inspection at a pre-war Upper East Side co-op looked like a routine, modestly budgeted job. Then the leaks entered the picture. Luke Pantaleo, partner at RAND Engineering and Architecture, shares how this 52-unit building's plans changed again and again, why finding the s…
New condo buildings can look flawless on the surface, but that polish sometimes hides problems that only become obvious once people have already moved in. In this episode, Joseph Cosentino, managing director and head of mechanical engineering at FSI Architecture, explains forensic audits, the deep …
Getting people to run for a co-op or condo board is harder than it sounds, and one Brooklyn condo's experience shows just how much a broken process can hold a building back. Corinne Arnold and Will Kwan, managing partners at EZ Election Solutions, talk about what it really takes to turn apathy…
Laundry rooms rarely make headlines, but when machines break down or vendors go quiet, they become the most talked-about amenity in the building. In this episode, Sandra DiLollo, sales manager at Automatic Industries, walks through what boards need to know before switching laundry vendors. She expl…
A 1960s condo on Manhattan's East Side was staring down carbon fines that would climb past $250,000 a year — until its board decided to act. Michael Scorrano, managing director and founder of the EN-POWER GROUP, a Verdantas Company, walks through how they swapped an aging, gas-fired heating an…
Luggage carts have a way of disappearing in doorman buildings, tucked into hallways and forgotten until someone else needs one and can't find it anywhere. It's the kind of small, everyday annoyance most residents just shrug off. On this episode of Problem Solved, Jerry Kestenbaum, founder…
A West Village condo opened with a lobby designed by a high-profile architect, the kind of detail that helped sell apartments before anyone moved in. But once residents settled in, the design started working against them: materials that couldn't handle daily wear, finishes that felt more showr…
Insurance costs have become one of the biggest headaches for New York co-op and condo boards, and umbrella policies are feeling the squeeze hardest. Sophie Bird, senior vice president at IMA Corp., explains why boards today are buying a fraction of the coverage they once did, and what's drivin…
Garage inspections sound like unremarkable, until a single overlooked detail turns a routine repair into a race against a filing deadline. In this episode, Charles Phillips, senior project manager at Merritt Engineering, takes us inside a Brooklyn co-op's compliance scramble, where solid struc…
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