Dear fellow owners of the 2900 Ocean avenue Condo, Brooklyn NY 11235:
Something is deeply wrong with the management of our condo.
I would like to share with you my recent correspondence with (nominal) chair of the Condo Board, Ms. Bishop.
Here is my latest email to her:
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Ms. Bishop:
Email me the “written annual reports summarizing receipts and expenditures” for the past 20 years for examination, according to quoted below Condo Law.
CONDO LAW
§ 339-w. Books of receipts and expenditures; availability for
examination. The manager or board of managers, as the case may be, shall
keep detailed, accurate records, in chronological order, of the receipts
and expenditures arising from the operation of the property. Such
records and the vouchers authorizing the payments shall be available for
examination by the unit owners at convenient hours of weekdays. A
written report summarizing such receipts and expenditures shall be
rendered by the board of managers to all unit owners at least once
annually.
https://www.ncsl.org/documents/environ/NYcondo.pdf
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I do not recall receiving any information of this type from her or the Board EVER!
And this is YOUR MONEY!
We do not know how they are spent, and who gets paid, and for what.
I have many other questions, but let us start with this.
The ultimate source of Authority in Condo management are the owners themselves, not the Board, and not its chair.
Demand the true and timely answers from Ms. Bishop on this and other matters.
Democracy does start at home, the process of the condo management has to be carefully watched.
This condo did not have a meeting for the last several years, for a variety of reasons, and this is clearly abnormal.
I started building this website to facilitate the communications between us, and to have the safe and convenient virtual meeting place for the owners as the substitute for the physical meetings.
Please let me know about your concerns and thoughts about the managing the affairs of this condo, and how we can make it better.
All my interactions with the condo present managing team and the related issues will be published here, in the open and transparent manner.
This is your property.
I would like to hear from you.
Sincerely, Michael Novakhov
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2900 Ocean Avenue Brooklyn NY 11235
6 replies on “Dear fellow owners of the 2900 Ocean avenue Condo!”
Grace Bishop did not pay her maintenance, had liens filed against her and lied about it to get elected:
Election Fraud!!! Contact your Brooklyn District Attorney if you have additional information about kicks backs / profit splitting
Grace Bishop ran for a president and a treasurer before but never told anyone that she didn’t pay her maintenance and had 2 liens filed against her unit twice. FALSE ELECTION ! Concealment! She handles thousands of dollars in accounts and overspends on fees.
See attached documents. Did she tell you that before she got elected?
The lien mentioned in this email was paid in full over 30 years ago. Further, I did not seek a position on the Board and was recruited to join over 20 years ago by the presiding Board President, Phil Newman. I make no decisions regarding how money is spent, everything is approved by a majority of the Board. In addition, the Board has an elected Treasurer that approves expenses and everything is overseen by the Management Company. I plan to seek the advice of an attorney over the outrageous claims made against my character. shame on you both.
Ms. Bishop:
For some reasons your comment was overlooked by me, and I approved as soon as I saw it: of course, you have the right to respond and to be published on the equal basis. I regret the 10 days delay.
I welcome you to participate in this discussion and to address the people’s concerns, which are many.
Of the most recent issues, I would like to know specifically your opinion about the selection of the Brownstone Property Group as the managing Co. The advantages are obvious. If you have the specific objections to this choice, please speak up and give your reasons.
I also would like to remind you that the new managers need the Offering Plan as the guidance to draw the referendum on this subject and the Election of the new Board.
According to Law, you have to share this information.
Your “Dependable” friends did not even bother to mail out the notices about the last meeting of May 22, 2023.
They deserved to be fired, for the breach of contract: it is their duty to organize these meetings.
Some people (e.g. Stacy) think that it was done on purpose, to ease your non-election and the rule by default.
With regard to “lawyering up”, we all have to do that, such is the climate.
I urge you to cooperate, to respond, and to participate in this discussion for the benefit of all shareholders.
This comment will be published as the post also.
Sincerely, Michael Novakhov | 2:30 PM 6/8/2023
There is no section to upload documents with proof. I emailed them to you directly
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With regard to Phil Newman, I heard from one of the owners, the old-timer, that Newman “sold the Condo to the management, to Russian Mafia”, and the things started to go downhill after that.
How aware were you of the situation at that time, and how witting a participant and the convenient cover, Madam President?