Download or read book High Life written by Matthew Lasner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City’s first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.
Download or read book The Condo Book written by David T. Schwindt and published by Beyond Words. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last a book that guides the reader through the perils and opportunities of buying a home within a community association. Condominiums, townhomes, cooperatives, and single-family homes within a community association share similar issues with respect to financial and governance surprises that may affect your pocketbook and quality of life. Learn how to ask for the right information, ask the right questions, and decide for yourself the best home that reflects your values, lifestyle, and budget—and of course to help avoid a major surprise after purchase. David T. Schwindt, certified public accountant, consultant, and reserve study specialist, brings over thirty years of experience with community associations in an easy-to-understand resource that you will find invaluable in making the right decision for you and your family. Included with each informative chapter are tips, best practices, and ways to create community and harmony within an association.
Download or read book New Neighborhoods written by Gary A. Poliakoff and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This straightforward, easy-to-read book outlines homeowners' rights and obligations and explains the complexities of living in a community association. It explains how associations operate, collect money, hold meetings and elections and how residents can serve effectively as board members or volunteers. With humor and a conversational writing style the authors explain the pros and cons of those unique new neighborhoods where ownership is shared.
Download or read book Condo Living written by Robert M. Meisner and published by Momentum Books LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to understanding the legal rights of condominium owners, as well as the dynamics of condo association boards, nobody knows condos like Robert M. Meisner! An attorney specializing in community association law ... adjunct professor at two Michigan law schools ... extensive lecturer and prolific author ... Meisner is a nationally recognized specialist on condiminiums. In Conco Living, Meisner shares his wit and wisdom accumulated from more than 35 years of practicing community association law. If you've ever thought about buying or selling a condo, or joining a condo board, read this book first!
Download or read book Condo Buying and Ownership Made Simple written by Kay Senay and published by Senay Enterprises LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring Kay's exclusive buyer's checklists"--Cover.
Download or read book The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living written by Hazel Easthope and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of people now live in cities and for many that means apartment living. Apartments are where we spend our time, make our homes, raise our families and invest our money. Apartment living requires that we try to get along with our neighbours and make decisions collectively about the management of our buildings. This book examines how different housing markets, development practices, planning regimes, legal structures and social and cultural norms affect people’s everyday experiences of apartment living.
Download or read book Life in the Condo written by Alice Bowen Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Condo: The Senior Version is a thoughtful, amusing response to, "You should write that down!" A collection of thoughts, musings, and happenings, this little book is about place and more importantly, an admonition to, "Pass it on (LOVE that is!)"
Download or read book Life at the Top written by Kirk Henckels and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are New York City's best apartment buildings? Before 1900, it was the Dakota and the Osborne; soon after came McKim, Mead & White's 998 Fifth and the ultra-soigne 820 Fifth Avenue. The roaring twenties produced true luxury: 740 Park Avenue, the art deco-inspired River House, and Rosario Candela's extraordinary 778 and 720 Park Avenue. Today, the city's skyline sparkles with palatial new buildings, such as Robert A. M. Stern's 15 Central Park West, Richard Meier's glass-walled Perry Street towers, and 432 Park Avenue, New York's tallest residential building. Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker, real estate and architectural insiders, chronicle the fortunes and features of 15 outstanding apartment houses with a wealth of vintage and new photography and architectural plans, and show off select apartments as they look today, designed by top interior designers.
Download or read book The Condominium Concept written by Peter M. Dunbar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical and popular guide to operating a successful condominium association in Florida. Working tool with forms and references to the latest Florida Statutes. For officers, owners, realtors, attorneys and directors.
Download or read book Underwater written by Ryan Dezember and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bruss Real Estate Book Award His assignment was to write about a real-estate frenzy lighting up the Redneck Riviera. So Ryan Dezember settled in and bought a home nearby himself. Then the market crashed, and he became one of the millions of Americans who suddenly owed more on their homes than they were worth. A flood of foreclosures made it impossible to sell. It didn't help that his quaint neighborhood fell into disrepair and drug-induced despair. He had no choice but to become a reluctant and wildly unprofitable landlord to move on. Meanwhile, his reporting showed how the speculative mania that caused the crash opened the U.S. housing market to a much larger breed of investors. In this deeply personal story, Dezember shows how decisions on Wall Street and in Washington played out on his street in a corner of the Sunbelt that was convulsed by the foreclosure crisis. Readers will witness the housing market collapse from Dezember’s perch as a newspaper reporter. First he’s in the boom-to-bust South where a hot-air balloonist named Bob Shallow becomes one of the world’s top selling real-estate agents arranging condo flips, developers flop in spectacular fashion and the law catches up with a beach-town mayor on the take. Later he’s in New York, among financiers like Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman who are building rental empires out of foreclosures, staking claim to the bastion of middle-class wealth: the single-family home. Through it all, Dezember is an underwater homeowner caught up in the mess. A cautionary tale of Wall Street's push to turn homes into assets, Underwater is a powerful, incisive story that chronicles the crash and its aftermath from a fresh perspective—the forgotten, middle-class homeowner.
Download or read book Condominium written by John D. MacDonald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Golden Sands, the dream condominium built on a weak foundation and a thousand dirty secrets. Here is a panoramic look at the shocking facts of life in a Sun Belt community -- the real estate swindles and political payoffs, the maintenance charges that run up and the health benefits that run cut...the crackups and marital breakdowns...the disaster that awaits those who play in the path of the hurricane...
Download or read book The Condo Kids written by Jackie Burns and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure is just an elevator ride away for brothers Noah and Michael, who are best friends with all the other Condo Kids in their building. This tight-knit group of pals just want to have fun, but always wind up in hilarious, sticky situations. The latest adventure finds the Condo Kids keeping a major secret from nosy neighbors, after Noah, desperate for a pet, sneaks a Barbary sheep named Bob home from the zoo. While Bob is heaps of fun to have around, the Condo Kids soon learn keeping a secret pet is a risky game to play. Between Noah's suspicious mom and the scary superintendent on their trail, they are just one mistake away from being discovered once and for all. Will the Condo Kids manage to keep their furry friend hidden from prying eyes? Or will they be found out and lose the newest member of the Condo Kids gang?
Download or read book King of the Condo written by Thomas James Madden and published by Transmedia. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone tries to assassinate the Condo Association's president, this comedy turns into an entertaining whodunit with a surprising ending. There's fun and suspects galore in this riotous romp of life in a Florida condominium community. October '98 publication date.
Download or read book Apartment written by Teddy Wayne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors Choice Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize One of Vogue.com's “Best Books of 2020 So Far” One of Elle's “Best Books of 2020 So Far” Named A Most-Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vogue, The Boston Globe, Salon, The Millions, Inside Hook, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan. The narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling “fundamentally defective.” But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict. Interrogating the origins of our contemporary political divide and its ties to masculinity and class, Apartment is a gutting portrait of one of New York's many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them.
Download or read book Celebrate Life written by Marcello Pedalino and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Life is a lifestyle guide designed to help you enjoy a healthier and happier existence. It features autobiographical life lessons, actionable advice, and a collection of Marcello Pedalino's photography in an inspirational meme format. Marcello Pedalino wanted his daughter, Isabella, to have a lifestyle guide when she grew up- just in case he wasn't around to teach her everything he had learned over the past 40 years. Marcello wanted to create a more efficient way to be able to share his experiences and life lessons with all the people who had come up to him and asked, "How can I live it up?," "How can I discover fulfillment?," and "How can I experience the joy I deserve?" like you do. So he wrote this book. Regardless of your age, Celebrate Life will save you a little (or maybe even a lot) of time, money, and aggravation. It will show you why taking care of yourself, having compassion, traveling, doing what you love, keeping good company, letting it go, and evolving are all paramount if you want to move onwards and upwards in your life. A lot of remarkable people went above and beyond to show Marcello the way over the years... this book is Marcello's way of paying it forward.
Download or read book Condo Mania written by Leo Rosenberger and published by Red Engine Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Rosenberger's thirty years of condo experience as an owner, ten-term board director and treasurer, and hands-on association manager gives him a unique perspective that is unmatched by condo industry management peers. After you read this book you will have no doubt that when it comes to condo "street smarts" he's the real deal-the guy who has been "been there, done that" in the world of condo living. For several years owners, residents, and fellow board members of the community associations he has touched, have urged him to write this book. They said "Leo, no one knows condos or has stories to tell like you." Finally, he took their advice.
Download or read book Tidy the F ck Up written by Messie Condo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even you can get your sh*t together! Tidy the F*ck Up is a funny, down-to-earth parody of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, where you’ll be handed the most useful tools for keeping your crap clean and organized without all the pressure. In this book, you’ll discover useful ways to figure out what to do with your sh*tpiles in an approachable, care-free way, and you’ll say farewell to the hair-pulling stress of marathon cleaning. Tossing all your junk in a closet doesn’t make it any less of a clusterf*ck, but approaching it little by little and making use of some helpful hints can do a world of wonders for all your sh*t, the comfort of your space, and your general sanity. With this hilarious guide, you’ll learn how to: Become a decision-making bad*ss Get rid of the sh*t you don’t need and keep the sh*t you do Live life after a clusterf*ck! And more! With a lighthearted tone that the finest sailors would admire, Tidy the F*ck Up will help you make your house a f*cking home.
