Board members and trustees are volunteers with many responsibilities. They devote time to their association, act as a governing body for the condo and have the powers to control what is permitted to take place and not take place. It’s …
Being elected to the board of a co-op or a condo comes with a great deal of power, and with that power also comes a great deal of responsibility. Whether they serve a co-op or condo community, trustees and board members, in their posit…
Q Residents of our cooperative have been faced with the problem of getting rid of the co-op’s board of directors. These are some of the reasons why: 1.They lack the expertise to be board members because they are inept, incompetent and …
For the most part, people are afraid of change, and that’s why they are more likely to stick with what they have and what they know, rather than explore new possibilities. That’s definitely the case with condo communities in re…
It is one of life’s eternal questions: is it possible to have too much of a good thing? That question certainly can apply to the matter of long-serving board members, those individuals who get elected and re-elected term after term. And…
Susan Jones wants to join the board of trustees. She’s been a unit owner for a few years and really believes that she can make a difference to the association. When it comes to co-op and condo boards, many members join because they have…
Q My question is about being elected to the board of a condo association in Quincy, MA. We have a building management company hired by our board. Can the management company executive be elected to the board? And does this executive hav…
Q Our board used to be nine members in the beginning but we made an amendment to reduce the size to seven members. Now we want to increase it to nine again because seven is not enough. Do we have to make another amendment? —A…
Q A friend of mine is the president of a condo in Waltham, MA. She had been working for the superintendent as a secretary when the super started his own business, which is on the condo premises. Although it’s just office work, my friend…
Q I am on the board of directors in a Connecticut leasehold property. For some time, we have wanted to nominate one of our leaseholders but she keeps refusing to be on the board because she says that as a lawyer/ accountant, she holds h…