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Can anyone recommend an attorney?

Started by cmist
over 11 years ago
Posts: 56
Member since: Jul 2009
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In need of an attorney, I am a shareholder in a building and i am not getting enough heat for the last 2 years..
Response by cmist
over 11 years ago
Posts: 56
Member since: Jul 2009

I should add i'm a coop shareholder..

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Response by NWT
over 11 years ago
Posts: 6643
Member since: Sep 2008

What happened two years ago that reduced the steam to your apartment while not affecting anyone else?

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Response by Flutistic
over 11 years ago
Posts: 516
Member since: Apr 2007

Call 311 and ask them how to file a no-heat complaint against the managing agent.

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Response by gothamsboro
over 11 years ago
Posts: 536
Member since: Sep 2013

Aboutready is good in these scenarios. She is not an attorney, but she owns half of her husband's law degree, and in her last place, she managed to win a windfall in a lawsuit against a party that didn't even own the building when she lived there and aboutready hadn't even been harmed by any party at all!

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Response by Al_Assad
over 11 years ago
Posts: 107
Member since: Jul 2011

Saul Goodman and Associates.

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Response by streetsmart
over 11 years ago
Posts: 883
Member since: Apr 2009

I don't know why people think that an attorney can solve their problems. You can't be the only one not getting enough heat.

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Response by fieldschester
over 11 years ago
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Member since: Jul 2013

Attorney, why use an attorney when you can have a wife of an attorney?

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Response by aboutready
over 11 years ago
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Member since: Oct 2007

Or you could just be our resident SE ass and see how that works for you.

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Response by aboutready
over 11 years ago
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Member since: Oct 2007

On a more helpful note, has this changed? Have you been there more than two years? Fuel has been so expensive the last couple of years, particularly given the low temperatures. Oil costs have plummeted recently, but don't expect the results to get better the first year. They may or may not. GL.

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Response by iwhite1967
about 11 years ago
Posts: 12
Member since: Feb 2014

Just call your managing agent or talk to your board.

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Response by jelj13
about 11 years ago
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Member since: Sep 2011

If you have been notified the Board and the Managing Agent repeatedly over the past 2 years. hire an attorney.

I lived in a coop where just a few of the neighbors had no heat. They hired a lawyer eventually after being repeatedly ignored by the Board and the Managing Agent. Apparently, one of the Board members on that line made modifications to the heating units within their apartment that blocked others on the line from getting heat. That's why their complaints weren't handled. The Board member didn't want to go through the expense of fixing the heating system again or being caught about for an illegal renovation he did on his own.

The lawyer for these people called the appropriate city agencies to inspect the apartments. He also held the Board's and the Managing Agent's feet to the fire. The building was also slapped with numerous violations that the city uncovered at the same time.

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