Q. Is it illegal for a president of a condo association to work for the property management company under contract to the association and for that person to sign a new contract? Or is it just unethical and in poor taste creating a divided…
Q. My question is: who has access to the actual vote count and to review actual ballots of an Illinois condominium board election? Do board members have such access? Do individual unit owners have such access? —Seeking Clarification on E…
In multifamily properties where different households share in the use, visual enjoyment, and property value of landscaped outdoor elements, a lot of factors go into deciding what and where to plant, how to maintain it, and how much to spend…
When one buys a private single-family home, it’s clear who the king or queen of the castle is: the homeowner. When it comes to condominiums and cooperative apartments, however, the relationship between owner and property is a little more co…
Noise is an acknowledged part of urban life–particularly apartment living. Some of it—traffic, garbage collection, people shouting on the street—is external, and is controlled (theoretically, anyway) by zoning laws and noise ordinances. So…
At this time last year, many states initiated a series of eviction moratoriums, with governors issuing executive orders to prevent certain residential tenants from losing their homes to eviction during the coronavirus pandemic. On September…
Bisnow reports that Chicago and its outlying areas are seeing robust home sales in the first months of 2021—not just in the single-family market, but in condos as well. The outlet cites a report from the Chicago Association of Realto…
Cities reshape and reinvent themselves regularly and organically. Old buildings become obsolete for a variety of reasons, and new buildings replace them. Many a four- or five-story tenement has been knocked down to make way for a shiny, new…
According to reporting by a number of local and national news outlets, including the Chicago Sun Times and the New York Post , a trio of neighboring condominium buildings along Chicago’s Gold Coast have been struck by gunfire in …
Over the past year, you may have been one of the many who tuned in to CooperatorEvents’ popular webinar series - but did you know that CooperatorEvents also produces CooperatorEvents Expos, a series of must-attend annual and biannual trade …