Category: Finance

As annual and quarterly budgets come up for review, HOAs across the state are looking to cut costs anywhere and everywhere they can. But how much more “fat” can be trimmed from budgets that already look stripped to the bone? Happily, th…

 In the last two years, Fannie Mae has amended it guidelines for selling and  serving mortgages on condominiums, cooperatives, and planned unit developments  three times. Why should service providers, cooperative corporations and community…

If you’re looking for a lush patch of green in New Jersey, you’re in luck: the Garden State is so named because of the multitude of flora- and fauna-filled havens to choose from when you’re looking for an escape. But one garden…

Lakewood Township is a diverse community with a rich history, a growing population, and a wide array of attractions and amenities. Located in Ocean County, the township's accessibility to major urban centers has attracted residents who…

 Ah, summertime. It’s a great time for property managers to kick back and relax -- except for that  out-of-control grill fire on the deck of unit 31 that nearly spread to adjacent  units; that ornery 13-year-old who broke his finger during…

 As recent events in the financial and insurance sectors of our economy have  painfully demonstrated, oversight and accountability are vital components in  any healthy business relationship -- and that holds true whether you’re talking abo…

Fresh from hoisting up the banking and automobile sectors, a newly muscular Uncle Sam is now turning his attention to putting the skids on the real estate meltdown. Earlier this year, the Obama Administration rolled out two ma…

Even in the best of economic times, preparing a condominium’s annual budget is a tiresome task, fraught with uncertainty, estimations and shifting numbers. Now, factor in one of the most challenging economic downturns in a cent…

Nestled on three and a half miles on the Hudson River at the foot of the Palisades, Edgewater borough is a small nugget of New Jersey’s Gold Coast. With a growing, young population looking for proximity to Manhattan, as well as a communi…

For many years—or at least until the energy crisis of the 1970s—urban and suburban planners didn’t seem to care much about conserving natural resources. Suburban towns were laid out in such a manner that you had to drive everywhere—even …