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Started by mirceani
almost 9 years ago
Posts: 6
Member since: Jun 2015
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Is it legal for a couple (husband wife) to be both on a condominium board in New York city?
Response by JR1
almost 9 years ago
Posts: 184
Member since: Jun 2015

There is no strict prohibition that I'm aware of unless your condo has precise rules against it. I have a friend who's the legal owner, and he submitted his wife to be on the board and it was okay.

With that said, if your board is full of insane people (very plausible in this city) and they're against something simple like this, I would start watching out and seeing what else they're up to. If you have crazy neighbors who may act in their own interests, start legal battles and quickly run up common charges because they have no idea how to run a building, I would RUN and sell quickly!

It's simply not worth it. Your unit will quickly become much less marketable with crazy people on the board and especially if the building is dragged into a legal battle.

That is a nightmare scenario of course and we hope it doesn't happen. In the off chance that does, just quickly list your property using a flat fee RLS (through Hauseit etc.) and quickly get the sale done. Fortunately there's not much a condo board can do to prevent your sale.

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