u/OrneryZombie1983

This isn't happening to me but I know this is going on in my building. Several years ago someone did a gut renovation of their apartment. Cracks showed up in the neighboring apartment. For some reason the owner of that apartment didn't do much besides tell the super. Super didn't do anything. I suspect it's because his job is to maintain the building, not do free work when someone causes damage. Now the victim is complaining to the board and it looks like the super is going to be forced to do the work which means the co-op is footing the bill for the materials.

Is this normal? I can understand that the victim didn't want to file an insurance claim but that's what insurance is for. Or is this a case of nobody can say with absolute certainty what caused the cracks?

I know of at least a few other instances in the building where something like this happened. In one, it was completely obvious someone was at fault and they agreed to pay out of pocket for repairs. Insurance and lawyers weren't necessary. In another instance, a shareholder denied responsibility and the super did the repairs as part of his job. And he was pissed. He felt he was doing free work.

Just started looking for replacements to 50 year old original doors made of wood and some sort of pressed board panels.

I don't really like the appearance of the steel that is supposed to look like wood. This seemed to be the majority of the options.

One vendor showed me a sample of a door that is aluminum with some sort of composite overlay.

Different vendor discouraged going with wood because of wood quality and durability concerns. Doors face north and don't get sun.

Just started looking for replacements to 50 year old original doors made of wood and some sort of pressed board panels.

I don't really like the appearance of the steel that is supposed to look like wood. This seemed to be the majority of the options.

One vendor showed me a sample of a door that is aluminum with some sort of composite overlay.

Different vendor discouraged going with wood because of wood quality and durability concerns.

Doors face north and don't get sun.

The Soviets are only focusing on the Salyut low earth orbit space station. No moon missions?

How does this match up with FAM Season 1. I didn't do a rewatch but I thought after their initial moon landing in 1969 they kept going back, just like the Americans.

Long story short, dad was the original owner. Drove it through the 1970s. It spent most of the 1980s sitting in the garage. Got it running again in the 1990s and drove it occasionally for fun through the 2000s until he got too old to take care of it. Sat in the garage until he died. I've been avoiding doing anything with it as I have nowhere else to put it (live in NYC). Mom wants it gone.

I need all the advice. How to find a buyer, get a fair price (preference is to find someone that really wants it but also don't want to give it away), deal with the fact that the car is stuck in a garage at home, how to have a potential buyer inspect the car, dealing with buyers vs tire kickers, paperwork, insurance (car is currently unregistered and uninsured), etc.

I have searched through the sub and most of the advice seems tailored to cars in running condition.

edit: Thanks for all of the helpful information and suggestions!

Our co-op has election for the board at the annual meeting, held each June.

They usually send out a "Save The Date" email announcing the annual meeting about a month before it takes place. They ask anyone interested in running for Board to email them by a certain date. The slate is announced at the meeting. The number of candidates is always the same as the number of seats (7). They usually ask if anyone else wants to run but nobody ever speaks up. A voice vote is called. Nobody objects and that's it.

I get the sense that no more than a few people feel like volunteering each year so the current board waits to see how many are willing to do it and then some of the current board members step aside, in part because they're probably tired of doing it. Nobody ever challenges the new slate, in part because people don't really want to do it and in part because people don't want to be confrontational.

Whenever I describe this friends who live in co-ops they are all surprised. Their buildings pre-announce who is running. It's frequently more than the number of seats. They use real ballots to vote.

Our bylaws say that ballots are not necessary but that any shareholder can request them and the request must be honored.

Anyway, wondering how other co-ops operate. Mine feels far too casual. The Boards for the last five to six years have been pretty good and have dealt with some major issues. Boards in the 2010s were bordering on incompetence.

Worried about things going forward because I'm hearing rumors of a number of the current board are looking to step down which could mean major turnover with unknowns being rubber-stamped into office.