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Category Archives: Facilities & Maintenance

What Goes Up … Must Break Down

ElevatorElevators may be the most complicated and expensive asset in your building. Fix your contract, know the basics and minimize legal risks before your community finds itself out of order. The passenger elevators in a 90-year-old, 62-unit, 16-story condominium complex in Chicago were so small and vintage...
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What’s In, What’s Out

HOA AmenitiesForget gates and golf. Today's homeowners and buyers want something else. Adapt your amenities and community events or get left behind. In the not too distant past, simply having a gatehouse, golf course and swimming pool were a sure-fire way for a community association to attract...
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SAVING SPRINKLERS

Fire Sprinklers in Townhouse and CondominiumsCODE REQUIREMENTS for fire sprinklers in multifamily buildings have been in place for decades, but recent building code revisions are moving toward requiring fire sprinklers for all new residential construction, even some detached single-family homes. If you live in, govern or manage...
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Tall Task

HOA ChallengesOdors, noise, pets, renters and more make condominium and cooperative governance and operations complicated. Are you up for the challenge? When a renter in a third-floor unit broke a fire-sprinkler head at a Seattle-area high-rise condominium, water flowed down seven floors—from the offending unit to the fourth...
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