Management On Site

An unhappy neighborly situation comes to mind in another Condominium high-rise situation. This occurs where one Unit is occupied by a chain smoker and is immediately backing another Unit that is occupied by someone who is very sensitive to smoke. Supposedly, there is extra insulation and double drywall between units to prevent transmission of noise and air infiltration. What happened here however, is that there was uncovered a gap between the window unit and the drywall area between the units and there was no intention of the Developer’s representative to admit the error in installation. Nevertheless, the Developer’s rep did attempt to alleviate the situation, pumping foam insulation into the spaces between the wall and the window gap areas. Did this work. Only minimally and in addition to filing suit, the offended Unit Owner had to consider selling but ended up renting the unit to others who would not care about this issue as much. Meanwhile the chain smoking unit owner contracted Cancer, stopped smoking for a few months, cleaned up her unit, but meanwhile the other Unit Owner had already moved out and rented out his unit. The On Site Property Manager had worked hard to enable each of the sides to work out appropriate solutions, which enabled some efforts on both sides to occur.

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Condominium Association life

Filed under: Condominium Management — mgmtadmn @ 9:58 am

A New High Rise building was built in the Chicagoland Suburban or downtown loop area with very high hopes for an excellent value and high quality life experience. The development was first class and included an entire community of stores, businesses, and various community attractions including community parking and Theaters. The building was built with an excellent development plan including a built in relationship where the commercial spaces and residential spaces coordinated services together in such a way that would compliment each other and provide the best possible interrelation of services and coordination as well as costs. There was an On-Site Management with separate Maintenance, Housekeeping and Security Departments under its supervision.

A Condominium living situation: what occurred here was that there was one floor that was constantly dealing with a disturbance coming from a dog in one of the units that was annoying and barking at various intervals during the night and waking and disturbing a number of the other units including a very kind and patient senior citizen on the floor. This senior found it difficult to complain, but was smart enough to realize that the only way to take care of this situation was to notify Management. Once Management was notified, appropriate notification to the offending Unit was provided and over a period of time and a significant effort and number of notifications, the Management sought Board approval for fines, penalties and strengthening of the rules governing this area. This brought about the offending unit, to choose to put up its unit for sale on the market. In the end, with months of wrangling on the issue, the offending dog was sent to live with relatives instead of staying in the Unit and continuing to cause difficulty.

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Filed under: Property Management — mgmtadmn @ 7:48 pm

This blog will delve into the exciting and ever changing world of Condominium and Property Management. Years of experience doing this type of work gives me many stories to tell. Those of you who own buildings or condominium property will most likely relate to some of my experiences and may even learn a thing or two. Check back soon as I am compiling a group of information to post here. And if you are in the Chicagoland area and in need of a reliable, hands-on property management company, visit my website at: managementonsite.com

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