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Hawley terrace hijack blog coop blog moved to wordpress

 Look for "escapefromyonkers"  for the original coop blog, it has all the house rules, proprietary lease and i will link the by- laws on Google drive  to it also.
Plus any good audio or video segments .

I am moving my coop blog over to word press  you can find it there, it has all the house rules, the published ones, not the secret board ones that are against the insurance policy and common sense and a instant lose at any jury trial.
 Mortgage fraud is increasing, i bet we are under 50% owner occupied , i see about 10 people that may be owners actually living here.
i read in the NY times that if the shareholder does not reside in the apartment it is not owner occupied. That was from a lawyers mouth, so that is what i go by.
 i will move my post to word press and use this for the original purpose i set it up for.
Where the boards in the wall and ceiling are in all the apartments. I am sure the boards are the same in the line of apartment, at least until the 5th floor. I forget the proper name for the wood boards in the walls and ceiling that we need to mount any shelves or pot holders.

The size of the toilet, that is a major number, i changed mine, somehow i got the toilet but could never find the numbers i used, i thought i had it in my PC but i need to do it again, i will record the numbers here, i know one of the people that hopefully still has the numbers=measurements.
Anything to do with the apartments to make improvements or mounting shelves, replacing anything, where not to drill.
We used to have a house committee, but we do not have owners occupiers, plus there is no income from the borderline sub-leasers.
 i need to rehang my closet shelves, they fell down, i guess i missed the wood, and i broke , or should i say i cracked my toilet , so i have to replace it before i replace the floor.

Allure floor is the best i have found, it is easy to put down, comes in multiple colors, is waterproof and is also a floating floor, like the laminate floors.
I cant deal with the smell of the laminate cutting. I have a load of  it, if i track down a laminate flooring cutter, i will use the laminate in one of my rooms.
Laminate cutter is like a big paper cutter, no dust .

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using the forms passed out from last year's annual meeting the owner occupancy ratio is between 52% to 67% ,, not the 95% or 90% the new buyers were told

remember i am disabled and typing  is hard with tremors in my fingers from the meds, i can only do what i can do.

I try and get my point across, if you want to email me put hawleyterrace in the subject line, no space and it will be filtered to my inbox  mikepiedell at  gmail.com      remember hawleyterrace 

think i threw in 6  extra owner occupied apartments to make it 37  owner occupied out of 59 apartments, the supers apartment  is not counted .Even with 6 added the % of owner occupied is  63%.   With 31 it is 53% owner occupied both , a far cry from 90%  or 95 %. I do not know who told the buyers this info, but thre last buyer bought from a Bank,  The owner ocupied perectage is huge when it coes to buying a coop.

The non owners, cannot vote, attend meetings, so they are not a cohesive force working for the good of the building.. The Board has let this building turn back into a rental building.  Some board members are buying up apartments to rent out some even were asking about a owner occupied apartment,  statig that it has to be owner for 2 years before one can rent out an apartment that is not supposed to be rented out.
The rules on unsold shares are not being followed, owner of unsold shares is supposed to have 10 years of Maintenance to put in escrow and be bonded, it actually still show  that on the AG site, A  memo concerning this, not anybody can be a buyer of unsold shares, they need to show and escrow money backing the maintenance for years.
There are a couple that are were looking like not owner occupied. Stopping in for a week or r living in florida and coming up twice a year is not owner occupied, They have no idea on what is going on here, and the president of the board does his best for zero transparency.Using an apartment for a art studio and living next door , is not owner occupied.  It is great they have a good studio close by to work, add i am all in favor of art,but one has to live in the apartment as their primary residence.
The  President of the co-op who states many times that  he will self deal  in the last 4years of meetings when i called him on his self dealing, it occurs in all aspects from parking spaces in the garage to the mount of space his family occupied in the storage room.  That was until he had a 40 yard container, well full size demolition container placed for a month on the premises to carry away his and some others unwanted stuff.. This is the third time a container has been paid for to remove left property.  The managing agent is clearly not doing his job, and the money should come out of their pocket, not the coops.
I have pictures that i will post, of the container being filled with bags of leaves and regular and other items we pay the city of Yonkers for removal. i am sure it is less that 1 cents  on the dollar compared to the 40 foot container. Even using the container to self deal by using cooperative monies to cart away his garbage, It has sat there for over 7 years that he and his wife, the shareholders , have moved out.  3 days would have been the max time, 30 days  is more fraud and theft of shareholder funds.  The rest of the board is obliviously not doing their fiduciary duties to the shareholders by letting this occur.  This also happened with the staircase rebuilding.  A 2 week job became about 9 months, a pile of dirt  and the main entrance for many people closed.
This also happened  about 2 weeks after Bernie Madhoff  turned himself in. Next the stock crashed, and our moneys should not even be on money markets now.
I have always  been very suspicious ans worried that our coop funds are being nixed with the president business monies , through a couple of round the bout moves to hide the real loss of the monies.
  The treasurer who has never lived in the building. but The president states he does live with his 40 year cols son in a 1 bedroom. Since the president tells his sheep, i mean board what to do, All correspondence goes through him. Since the treasurer cannot be questioned by the shareholders , since they cannot reach him, and it is a given that the other  sheep/ board members do not do their fiduciary duties to the shareholders and never have from what i have seen.
Taping and video recording the annual meeting is the best thing i have ever done.
Mr president likes to play verbal bully, and loves the annual bully pulpit.
however with the tape i can place his statements and his Lies, because every-word out of his mouth  are statement he knows to be fraudulent and his table of sheep let him, where they could turn around hold a meeting and vote him off the board .  They should because some have licenses they need for employment, plus who would do business with someone that will not take a stand against a egomaniac that micro manges the monies, with zero transparency. That may likely cost them a hurt in their livelihood.  That means the same person would not  stop a job site if he saw a series of incorrect construction.  He would not have the backbone to stand up to the  contractors and foreman, who would brow beat him into submission. worked.   He would do as he does on the board, nothing as the president caries on in a manner that will either garner court time or headlines, both will affect the livelihood of the people that need to be hired based on their  merits and name.
The Board must remember that  legally their total loyalty is to the shareholders of the building. None to the president and the managing company is an employee i would have fired 20 years ago.
Oh i forgot the daughter of the person that beat me was appointed election official that year, and counted the votes, and she just happens to be the wife of the president. so when he ran he won , and normally the board picks the president, but with the election official being a family member , there was a floor vote for president , and of course her husband won.
As always the above is my thoughts and opinion and practice of free speech as allowed under the Bill of Rights  of the USA.

2011 Audited financial report never received by resident shareholders of 1 Hawley Terrace co-op apartment nor the 2012

The audited financial reports should have been received by  March of the next year. The 2011 should have been received by March 2012.  The 2012 should have been received by March  2013. These time frames are written into the proprietary lease. Every shareholder that i saw and asked,there are not many left as the board and managing company is turning this co-op back into a rental said they had not received them. One person who is not familiar with all these reports was not sure. If  anyone has received them  i would really like to see it and see the 

postmark. This is not the tax filing forms that we did receive stating the real estate taxes and interest in shares.

So in a nutshell, the Treasurer has been fraudulently stating that he lives in the building,  and never has,nor should he have been allowed to buy two apartments and not occupy them. this is over 10 years post conversion. He did some self dealing to skip shareholders waiting 10 plus years for a upstairs parking space for his daughter..

the FULL board is aware of this fraud,  I have brought this up at the annual meetings. The treasure refuses to provide his true contact info , and remains unreachable.

This is the Odell Ave.side and entrance to indoor parking garages and terrace entrance areas that have poor lighting and should be corrected.

              

Typical Hawley Terrace coop board, Installs new security cameras on ouside of building ( which shareholders pay for) basically on all the exterior walls, without informing the residents either before or after the install.

The few  board members that live in the building  has made sure that they cannot be contacted unless you knock on their doors. They refuse to provide their contact information, except for the micro controlling president who hasn't lived in the building in seven plus years. who want to vet everything before other board members see it, and change anything or omit things he doesn't like. The one board member that has provided contact information is a participant in fraud , so i don't bother with people like that , as i do not bother with the president who is involved in many self dealing activities that harm the shareholders and the resale value of the apartments.   I have repeatedly asked for the treasurer contact information, and have been given fraudulent information at the annual meetings, while every board member sits there including the treasure and says nothing.  They all know he has never lived in the building , and he should never have been allowed to purchase his two apartment for his children and buy two places on the board at the same time.
I wonder if the art work that is on our walls is a tax right off , or the building actually pays him for it.
Since the coop  managing company and president with the spineless board blessing by their refusal to open their mouths and realize that it only hurts the coop when in becomes known that their is no oversight of the finances.  In 1998 after the NYC DA had a large arrest of managing agents and contractors involving kickbacks , a  strategy for board members to prevent this from happening again  was provided. It involves oversight of all financial matters by all board members , and rotation of checks and balances, with nothing over a small fee being approved without at least three signatures of board members.  There is a two page outline of what the board should do to prevent the pilfering of the buildings funds.  This was in 1998 and it is actually much more involved now.  Our board members didn't even know the name of the new  bank that our maintenance t monies were being sent to.  The  Deposit slip had a PO Box in Long Island, no Bank Name.   It may still be that way. Something else to check into.
The Board has run this coop into the ground with their non action and allowing a 30 yard dumpster to stay on premise for about 30 days, when 3 days max was all that was needed. It was filled with bags of leaves, not with items the building was trying to get rid of.  The dumpster should be paid for by the president of the coop , since the dumpster was to clean out the storage room for about the third time, except this time since he has moved and left his stuff  and behind he hired a dumpster to remove many of his items at the shareholders expense. I questioned his self dealing concerning his family's  commandeering of 80% of the storage room.  I informed him that it amounted to self dealing, something the president has been doing non stop for well over 10 years.  He stated four times which i have recorded , that he WILL self deal.
Who is going to buy an apartment to live in , where the president is stating he will self deal at annual meetings and verbally  bullying other shareholders so they will not attend any more meetings.
 In 2011 i wrote up his self dealing with regard to his family parking  spaces and skipping over many of the shareholders, some with 15 plus years.
He hasn't stopped, but the paperwork i have trumps the BS he was spewing.  Any shareholder that parks in the lower level, has been skipped by self dealing , they just have to let me know, so a paper trail can be initiated and action taking. I have the parking regulations posted in this blog, and despite some incredibly stupid  board members, nothing becomes outdated. Everything requires a vote , and items in the by-laws , which the parking is,  requires a super majority vote, plus it also has to be voted for a change in the proprietary lease.
Until the few shareholders that are left in this building , get together to take some action, the prices will continue to plummet. I hear a nice 2 bedroom with rive views is available in the  $138,000 range.

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