According to a recent Women in the Workplace survey from the U.S. Green Building Council ( USGBC ), women across the green building industry are facing historic challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Of nearly 500 women survey…

Despite recent incidents of civil unrest and an uptick in some crime stats during the COVID pandemic, crime - particularly violent crime - has been trending downwards for decades. That said, securing your building or association is always a…

While residents of condos, co-ops, and HOAs do their part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by staying in their homes as much as they can, they rely on the supers, porters, valets, doorpeople, janitorial workers, handymen and -women, securi…

Boards are usually composed of volunteers who work regular jobs when they're not helping to govern their building or association. It's not often that those jobs are as attorneys or other legal professionals, so it's probably not surprising …

While the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic may have stopped much of our normal economic activity in its tracks, the gradual revival of business and commerce is inspiring some new thinking and new solutions for individual unit owners, …

Architectural Digest  reports  a new trend in amenities for multifamily residential buildings: on-site healthcare facilities or services that allow residents to receive medical testing or treatment at home. In this peri-pandemic era when …

Whether in a single-family home or an apartment building, every homeowner has experienced that moment: he or she turns on the kitchen light in the middle of the night to see a huge water bug scurry across the counter, or hear the sound of t…

'Light and air' are the two things pretty much everybody looks for in a home - and windows deliver both, so it's crucial that your building's windows be functional, efficient, and well-maintained. In this clip, a window pro tells about the …

As teleworking has become the new norm during the  COVID-19  pandemic, there are several methods by which association members or association boards can transact business in the absence of everyone gathering at the same time and location. …

( Editor's note: for an earlier, in-depth discussion of using reserve funds in emergencies, click here:  https://chicagocooperator.com/article/tapping-reserves-in-a-time-of-crisis )  Reserve funds are a normal - and crucial - component …