Rank and file owners also have to do the right thing for the building in the coming year. Here are a few suggestions of resolutions for them to make. Read more »

A Tribeca co-op owner asks the Sage in the City what to do when she sees Eddie, the building mutt that all the kids love, take a bite out of a toddler. Should she tell the board or call 311 or just keep her mouth shut? Read more »

OK, the market is getting better, or so it seems for now. Still in this economic climate skittish buyers have devised novel ways to get out of deals – from challenging floor plans to declaring the financial meltdown an Act of God, though it remains to be seen how many of these will succeed once they wend their way through the courts. So just what you can do to free yourself with impunity from the contractual bonds should the need arise? Read more »

You know, if you’ve been reading, how bad you or your board has to be before anything can be done. But what about your dog? It’s a question that hit me between the eyes this past weekend as I observed a normally placid Bull Dog that lives in my building practically lunge at a five-year old who accidentally impeded its path to a turned on Dachshund. Here's the answer. Read more »

“It’s entrapment,” Ms. X was obviously upset.

“How can you entrap a dog?”

There's a new breed of neighbor emerging who takes things into his own hands, so you'd better be prepared. Here's what you have to know.

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