Teri Karush Rogers

Whether you are a board member in a co-op or in a condo, there is a good chance you will someday be called on to deal with an owner behaving badly.  Condo boards, however, have significantly fewer remedial powers at their disposal than co-ops, which can terminate a proprietary lease and evict (or merely threaten to) a shareholder who engages in objectionable conduct.

Condo boards lack that velvet glove.

If you're a parent looking to combine a semi-affordable apartment with a good, free education for your elementary-age kids, you might find a whole slew of options you didn't know you had on SchoolFisher.com, a new apartment search and school rating site that launched this weekend.

That's the beginning of a comment recently posted on BrickUnderground. Here's the whole sorry tail:

All-electric, no-gas buildings aren't particularly common here in New York City. (Cue sigh of relief from Wolf, Viking and other manufacturers of ubiquitious commercial-style gas ranges.) Over on StreetEasy.com, a buyer wants to know the pros-and-cons of living in an all-electric building.

In its Best of New York 2011 issue this week, New York Magazine crowns a new bed bug extermination king--who also happens to be BrickUnderground's very own bed bug expert-on-call, Gil Bloom of Standard Pest Management. Bloom, an entomologist who served last year on the city's now-dissolved Bed Bug Advisory Board, has been helping BrickUnderground sort bed bug fact from fiction for almost two years now.

Q. How do I (and others who are in agreement) convince our shareholder neighbors to institute a flip tax on the sale of apartments? Our building is a 90-unit, 75-year-old UWS building with an inadequate reserve fund. The board is opposed to a flip tax although our maintenance keeps rising and we have assessments every year.