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Upload copy of compulsory repairs and maintenanceSUBRATA BANERJEE
The document discusses the obligations of apartment owners to maintain common areas and facilities. It outlines various types of repairs and maintenance works that should be done regularly or periodically to keep the property in good condition. These include tasks like gutter cleaning, roof inspection, and repairs to structures every few years. The document also explains that owners are responsible for paying their share of maintenance and repair costs as determined by the Apartment Owners' Association. It provides references to deeds and laws that specify owners' rights and responsibilities regarding common expenses. Finally, it discusses actions the Association can take if owners refuse to pay, such as negotiating, sending letters, or pursuing legal means to obtain payment.
Obligatory repairs and maintenance of common areas and facilitiesSUBRATA BANERJEE
The document discusses the rights and responsibilities of apartment owners for maintaining common areas, such as roads and pathways. It notes that all owners have an equal and undivided interest in common areas and must contribute to their upkeep. The document advocates developing a long-term maintenance plan and schedule to address issues proactively. It provides examples of routine, periodic, and long-term maintenance tasks needed to preserve the property over time. The document emphasizes the importance of properly maintaining common areas like roads for safety, accessibility, and property value.
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The document discusses the rights and responsibilities of apartment owners for maintaining common areas, such as roads and pathways. It notes that all owners have an equal and undivided interest in common areas and must contribute to their upkeep. The document advocates developing a long-term maintenance plan and schedule to guide repairs and replacements for roofs, paint, lifts, and other infrastructure over timeframes of years to decades. It also clarifies that while individual owners are solely responsible for internal units, common external areas are a shared responsibility of the owners' association and owners.
This document provides definitions and explanations of key terms related to architecture and the construction industry. It defines terms like trade, business, profession, doctrine, liabilities, duties, responsibilities, code, etiquette, ethics, negligence, tender, contract, and incompetence. It also summarizes the roles and services of architects, including consultation, design, construction documentation, construction phase oversight, and post-construction services. The types of fees charged by architects are outlined, generally ranging from 4-10% of a project's cost depending on its size and scope. Architects must comply with regulations from the Council of Architecture, which oversees the registration and standards of architects in India.
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2) It describes the roles and services provided by architects at different stages of a construction project from conceptual design to project completion.
3) It outlines the participants involved in the construction industry such as contractors, owners, engineers, and suppliers.
4) It discusses the contracting process between owners and contractors and the scale of fees charged by architects at different stages of a project.
The document provides information on professional practice for architects in India, including:
1) It defines key terms related to architecture such as trade, business, profession, doctrine, liabilities, duties, and responsibilities.
2) It describes the roles and services provided by architects at different stages of a construction project from conceptual design to project completion.
3) It outlines the process of contracting between clients and architects, including common payment stages as a project progresses.
4) It provides details on the scale of fees charged by architects, usually around 10% of the total project cost for smaller jobs down to 4-5% for larger projects.
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- Before signing a lease, tenants should understand repair obligations and limit liability. During the lease, tenants must plan for and budget to complete repairs by the end of the term.
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A Guide To BUILDING MAINTENANCE And REPAIR
1. A Guide to
BUILDING
MAINTENANCE
and REPAIR
Prepared by U-HAB The Urban Homesteading Assistance
Board and HPD Department of Housing Preservation and
Development of the City of New York
Table of Contents
OVERVIEW
• Welcome
• About TIL
• About UHAB
ORIENTATION
• About the Homesteader’s Handbook series
• How to Use this Book
CARING FOR YOUR BUILDING
• Introduction
• Maintaining Your Building
• Maintenance by the Tenant Association: Before and After Sale
• Maintenance by the Tenants: Before and After Sale
GETTING STARTED
• The Maintenance and Repair Committee
• Responsibilities of the Maintenance and Repair Committee:
• Establishing a Maintenance and Repair Committee
• Serving on the Committee
• Gaining Skills and Getting Help
2. • Setting a Maintenance and Repair Policy
THE TIL REPAIR PLAN
• The Repair Plan
• Developing a Repair Plan
• Conducting the Building and Apartment Condition Survey
• Building and Housing Codes
• Developing a Repair Budget
• Setting Priorities
o Emergency Repairs
o Preventive Maintenance
o Cosmetic Repairs
• Energy Conservation and Weatherization
• Tenant Self-Help
• Implementing Your Plan
WORKING WITH EMPLOYEES AND OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS
• Working with Your Superintendent
• Using the Super to Make Repairs
• Supervising Employees
• Scopes of Work and Specifications
• Hiring Outside Contractors
• Project Bidding Guidelines
• Supervising and Monitoring Contractors
• Contractors Hired By TIL
• Conclusion
RESOURCES
• Preventive Maintenance Checklist
• Energy Conservation Guidelines
• Schedule of Superintendent’s Responsibilities
• Classification of Housing Code Violations
How to Use This Book
The contents of this manual are divided into four
sections:
SECTION 1—Caring for Your Building (pages 8 to
11), offers an introduction and overview to the
entire subject of taking responsibility for the upkeep
and improvement of your own building. Few
tenants have any previous experience in planning,
3. conducting, or supervising the kinds of work
projects that are required to properly maintain a
building. And even those who are skilled at trades,
such as carpentry, plumbing, or electrical work,
have probably not had to deal with an entire
building before. This section is designed to help you
understand the big picture.
SECTION 2—Getting Started (pages 12 to 16),
concentrates on the role of the maintenance and
repair committee. It covers everything you need to
know to successfully plan and carry out a
maintenance and repair policy for your building,
and it includes suggestions for getting help with this
very important process.
SECTION 3—The TIL Repair Plan (pages 17 to 24).
This section addresses planning, carrying out, and
budgeting and paying for the repairs that your
building may require while you are enrolled in the
TIL program. As these projects tend to be big and
expensive, it is especially important that they be
well-planned and managed.
SECTION 4—Working with Contractors and
Employees (pages 25 to 31), offers helpful guidelines
on how to find, select, hire and supervise quality
contractors to provide your building with the
maintenance and repair services it needs.
A RESOURCES SECTION (pages 32 to 37) is
located following the major text. It includes a
Preventive Maintenance Checklist, Energy
Conservation Guidelines, Schedule of
Superintendent’s Responsibilities and Building
Code Violations.
for more
information call:
UHAB (212) 226-4119
or TIL (212) 386-7312
4. Finally, don’t be afraid to contact HPD or
your UHAB representative if you are at all
confused or have any questions.
Good luck!
Section 1
CARING FOR YOUR BUILDING
Introduction
Along with collecting the rent, taking care of
the maintenance and repair of your building is one
of the most important responsibilities of a tenant
association. Many residents will measure the
success or failure of their tenant association by
looking at things that affect them the most directly,
and few things that an association can do have as
great an impact on the quality of life in your
building as maintenance and repairs. The
association’s ability to conduct routine
maintenance, to handle emergency repairs, and to
plan and carry out long-term improvements in the
condition of the building will be key factors in
whether or not your association succeeds.
But maintenance and repair is a complex
process. More than simply supervising employees
and hiring contractors, maintenance and repair
requires good communications. You’ll need clear
communications among tenants and between your
tenant association and the contractors or employees
assigned to do the work. You’ll need active
participation by everyone in the building, as well as
well-understood and carefully crafted decision-
making practices. To put all of these elements
together, you will need a repair and maintenance
committee, which will take primary responsibility
5. for managing, supervising and monitoring all repair
and maintenance work.
Before you get into the nuts-and-bolts of
building maintenance and repair, take a long, hard
look around your building (and your tenant
association) and ask a few key questions:
The answers to
these questions
should help you
understand what
needs to be done,
and where to begin,
in improving the
maintenance and
repair of your
building. Most
likely, the place to
start will be with
the Maintenance &
Repair Committee.
• What shape is your building in? How does it look,
inside and outside, and how is it to live in? Are
there any obvious, immediate repairs needed?
• Do you practice preventive maintenance, including
energy conservation and weatherization, to avoid
future repair problems?
• Do you have an established maintenance and
repair committee?
• Does your repair and maintenance committee have
clearly-defined written procedures for setting
priorities and making needed repairs?
• Does your committee conduct regular surveys of
apartments and the building?
• Are repair request forms distributed to all tenants,
so that the committee has up-to-date information?
• Does your committee keep tenants informed about
the status of planned repair projects, those that
have been completed, or that are still in progress?
6. • Does your committee do a good job of supervising
the work of the superintendent and any outside
contractors?
Maintaining Your Building
Maintenance is generally defined as the work
that is done on a regular basis to keep your building
in good working condition: sweeping the halls,
lubricating hinges and locks, or servicing the burner
and boiler annually. Most maintenance tasks are
performed by the building’s super, but certain jobs
may be done by the officers, the maintenance and
repair committee, outside contractors, or the tenants
themselves.
During TIL, the City is your landlord. After
you have completed your time in TIL and purchased
your building, regular maintenance of building
systems and public areas becomes the legal
responsibility of your co-op corporation. It’s
important to learn the maintenance skills you’ll
need now, while you are still in TIL, so that you can
maintain your building more easily later.
For individual tenants, the transition to
cooperative ownership usually means new and
unfamiliar repair and maintenance responsibilities,
and these are discussed in detail in this manual.
Every tenant should be aware that their
responsibilities will increase after sale, and that they
can get a head start by initiating as much of this
work as possible while your building is still enrolled
in TIL.
Maintenance by the Tenant Association: Before and
After Sale
The tenant association’s officers and the
maintenance and repair committee are responsible
for ongoing maintenance of the building, including
an annual cellar-to-roof inspection, upkeep of major
systems, and planning for major repair projects
7. and/or capital improvements. Inspection reports
should include information about code violations in
the building (especially health or safety-related
items such as smoke detectors, window guards and
lead paint removal). The building’s weatherization
should be considered a major system, inspected and
upgraded regularly to save money on fuel bills.
Your tenant association should also try to schedule
“work days” for the whole building, on which
residents work together to do painting, patching, or
other maintenance and upkeep. This is a great way
to save money and keep your building well-
maintained while creating pride, participation, and a
sense of ownership among tenants.
Maintenance by the Tenants: Before and After Sale
Individual tenants can make a big difference to
the quality of their own life in the building by
taking responsibility for maintenance and repairs in
their apartments. Tasks like paint touch-ups or basic
carpentry can often be done by tenants themselves,
using materials purchased and supplied by the
tenant association. A fair, consistent written policy
should be developed by your building’s officers and
maintenance and repair committee, explaining what
projects the association will provide supplies for,
what will be supplied, and how a tenant can request
supplies. Remember, the tenant association should
not pay tenants for work and cannot give rent
abatements.
Tenants should report repair problems to the
officers or committee as soon as they occur,
especially if delays are likely to cause harm to
tenants or to the building. Tenants can also help out
by generally taking care of their building: not
littering, reporting vandals to the officers, and
helping to keep the building and grounds neat and
well-maintained.
During TIL, tenants have no legal obligation to
make improvements to their apartments, but many
will choose to do the work anyway because they
know it’s in the best interests of themselves and
their building. They also know that work they do
8. themselves is likely to be done exactly how they
want it, instead of the way the contractor or super
thinks it should be done.
After the tenants buy the building, they
become shareholders and take on new
responsibilities for repairing and maintaining their
apartments. Generally, repairs that need to be done
inside an apartment are the individual shareholder’s
responsibility, while tasks that involve the entire
building or a major building system will be
undertaken by the co-op corporation. Once again, it
is important to remember that the co-op corporation
is not a landlord. The shareholders are their own
landlords. For example, a resident who might have
wanted the tenant association to fix a broken stove
in her apartment while the building was still
enrolled in TIL would have to fix the stove herself
(or have it fixed at her own expense) if it breaks
down after sale.
Of course, if you and the other tenants in your
building have been doing basic repairs in your
apartments during the TIL period you are far more
likely to make a smooth transition to co-op
ownership. You will already have the skills to do
the work, and the experience of doing it for
yourselves.
Section 2
GETTING STARTED
The Maintenance and Repair Committee
The maintenance and repair committee is
responsible for planning and supervising all
maintenance and repair activity in the building. The
committee must work closely with the tenant
association’s officers in order to figure out how
much money is available for repairs, and how it
should be used. Members of the maintenance and
repair committee must be building-residents who
belong to the tenant association, and they should be
9. prepared to invest considerable time and energy in
this important responsibility.
The committee should meet at least twice a
month to review building repair needs and set
priorities. When an outside contractor is required,
the committee seeks qualified contractors, solicits
and evaluates bids for the job, and recommends the
selection of a contractor to the executive committee.
One member of the maintenance and repair
committee usually supervises the work of your
building’s superintendent.
Your TIL tenant association by-laws are very
specific regarding the duties and procedures of the
maintenance and repair committee, and they should
be followed closely. Article XI specifies how much
money the committee can spend without the
approval of the officers, and explains how many
bids and references are required for jobs that cost
more than a certain amount of money. It is
important that the maintenance and repair
committee review this section of the by-laws at the
committee’s first meeting, and follow the guidelines
carefully.
Responsibilities of The Maintenance and Repair
Committee
Responsibilities of the Maintenance and Repair
Committee: The maintenance and repair committee
must have active participation from its members, as
well as good communication with the officers,
tenants, TIL, and any contractors, tradespeople or
employees working with the building. In addition, a
clear decision-making process should be
established, with accepted procedures for making
needed repairs, a budget-based repair schedule, and
a system for receiving repair requests and
monitoring all repair and maintenance work.
10. MAINTENANCE & REPAIR COMMITTEE
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Develop a building maintenance and repair policy (see page 15 for guidelines)
and propose it to the tenant association.
2. Gather information about the building’s repair needs by surveying apartments and
public areas, and by conducting annual roof-to-cellar building inspections.
3. Compare your repair needs with your building’s HPD letter of intent, and work
with TIL to make sure that all required major repairs are included in an approved
repair plan for your building.
4. Assign one M&R committee member to be the Building Improvement
Coordinator (BIC). The BIC will be the liason between the T.A. and the City on
all repair issues. The City will provide the BIC with the scopes of work for your
building, contractors assigned and HPD staff responsible for supervising the
work. The BIC is responsible to communicate all information to the T.A..
5. Work with the tenant association’s officers to develop an annual and monthly
budget that spells out how much can be spent on repairs.
6. Compile a list of contractors, tradespeople, and handypeople whom you can call
regularly for bids and estimates, and check their references to confirm their
qualifications and reputation.
7. Develop a “scope of work” which clearly explains what is required or expected
for each contract repair job, contact contractors for bids, review and evaluate
bids when they are received, and advise the officers on selection of a qualified
contractor.
8. Develop and maintain a schedule of upcoming repairs and projects-in-progress,
including basic information about each job such as the scope of work involved,
who the contractor is, the payment schedule, and the name of the tenant-
supervisor assigned to oversee this effort.
9. Meet with contractors on a regular basis to review the progress of work on
projects and monitor the progress and quality of work until it is satisfactorily
completed.
10. Maintain an up-to-date file containing complete records for all past and present
maintenance and repair projects.
11. Establishing a Maintenance & Repair Committee
To formally create a new maintenance and
repair committee, you need to request that the
formation of the committee be placed on the agenda
of the next tenant association meeting. It’s a good
idea to talk with building residents informally first,
to get a sense of who might be interested and
willing to serve on the committee. Go door to door,
letting people know that a maintenance and repair
committee is being formed. Ask if they might be
able to serve on the committee, and encourage them
to participate. If possible, be prepared to answer
their questions - or to find the answers as soon as
possible. Put a notice under every door informing
tenants about the committee, its purpose, and the
person to contact for more information.
Serving on the Committee
This is a very important building committee,
and anyone who is prepared to make the
commitment to being an active member should be
encouraged to join. You will need from three to
seven members, and at least two of them must be
board members. If there are residents in your
building who have experience with building
maintenance or trades, such as plumbing, carpentry,
electrical work, or painting, it is a good idea to
include them on your committee. Their expertise
could be very helpful. In addition, because most
repair and maintenance projects take place during
normal daytime business hours, it is best if at least
one member of the committee can be available
during the day to monitor that work.
Gaining Skills and Getting Help
Once you have established a solid maintenance
and repair committee, you’re ready to get started
working on your building. Now what? First off, get
help. Very few people join a maintenance and repair
committee with all the knowledge and skills they
need to properly maintain and repair a New York
City apartment building.
12. Fortunately, there is lots of help available to
you and your committee. The TIL program offers
technical information, free inspections of conditions
in your building, and advice and assistance with
energy conservation. TIL also helps coordinate the
development and implementation of your building’s
repair plan, and in emergencies may be able to help
you complete the needed repairs. If necessary, TIL
may supply materials to your tenant association to
reduce the total cost of repairs.
Your committee can also get help from UHAB,
and from other agencies and departments such as
Con Edison and the Fire Department. UHAB offers
repair and maintenance classes and seminars that
focus on setting repair priorities, establishing repair
budgets, and hiring and monitoring contractors.
UHAB trainers can help your committee with
everything from developing a workable repair
policy to servicing and maintaining your boiler.
UHAB can provide your building with a hands-on
inspection and site visit to help your committee get
started, and we will work with you as you establish
your repair and maintenance policies.
Also, the UHAB publication titled A Guide To
Maintenance And Repair For Tenants Who
Manage Their Own Buildings is a greatly
expanded version of this manual. The Guide is
available free of charge and contains detailed
information about all building systems, building and
apartment condition surveys, working with
superintendents and contractors, identifying and
remedying housing and building code violations,
and low-cost weatherization techniques—among
many other maintenance and repair related matters.
As you begin to take responsibility for the first
time for the maintenance and repair of a large
building, it can seem overwhelming— especially if
the building for which you are responsible, like
many of those that are enrolled in the TIL program,
has been neglected and allowed to deteriorate over
the years —but if you approach the job in a step-by-
step way it won’t be as hard as it might seem.
13. Setting a Maintenance and Repair Policy
Once you have formed a maintenance and
repair committee, the next thing to do is to develop
a written maintenance and repair policy for your
building. A written policy is important. It clearly
sets out procedures for doing repairs, and it can help
prevent disputes before they happen. Also, by
encouraging all residents to participate in creating
the policy you can improve your chances of getting
greater tenant involvement. In addition, having a
written policy helps to ensure that any decisions you
make in the future will be consistent and fair.
YOUR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR POLICY SHOULD
INCLUDE:
• - Your tenant association’s repair priorities (be sure to review Article XI of your
by-laws)
• - Who will be responsible for regular repairs
• - How you will handle emergency repairs
• - How routine repair requests will be made and processed
• - How maintenance contracts will be handled (for your boiler, elevator, etc,)
• - How contractors will be hired and supervised
• - How your superintendent will be hired and supervised
• - How complaints will be received and responded to
• - How having a sub-manager, if you have one, affects your repair and
maintenance policy
All policies must be in writing, approved by
the association and TIL, and then included with
your by-laws and distributed to every tenant (and
the super, if he or she is not a tenant). Once your
maintenance and repair policy is established and
circulated, be sure to update it as needed if
conditions change, distribute new copies every year,
14. and encourage residents to bring copies to meetings
and refer to the policy when making decisions.
Building and Apartment Condition Surveys
After your committee has established its
policies and determined its priorities, the first job it
undertakes should be to conduct thorough building
and apartment condition surveys. These surveys
will allow you to develop a complete list of
everything that needs to be done in your building.
(These are discussed in more detail in the next
section of this manual, The TIL Repair Plan.)
Repair Request Forms
Finally, your maintenance and repair
committee should develop a simple form which
tenants can use to request repairs. Clear instructions
for how to use these forms - how to complete them
and whom to submit them to, etc. - must be
included in your written maintenance and repair
policy. (Sample maintenance and repair request
forms are available from UHAB, and one is also
contained in Volume 7 of the Homesteaders
Handbook series.)
Section 3
THE TIL REPAIR PLAN
The Repair Plan
During your first year in TIL a comprehensive
repair plan will be developed for your building.
Although it is not a legal contract, your repair plan
is a very important management tool which you can
use to prepare for the management and eventual
ownership of your building. The repair plan offers a
detailed description of all of the repairs that HPD
will do during the time that your building is
enrolled in TIL, as well as those that will remain the
responsibility of your tenant association. Usually,
15. HPD looks after your building’s the major systems
needs, while the association takes care of smaller
jobs.
Your repair plan will also include a general
schedule for completion of the needed repairs. For
example, the plan might state that your building’s
electrical wiring is scheduled to be done during
fiscal year ’96, which means between July 1, 1995
and June 30, 1996. This information will help you
to develop a long-range schedule for your tenant
association’s repair responsibilities, since some of
the association’s repairs may have to be completed
after the HPD jobs are done. For example, if major
electrical or plumbing work is anticipated in your
plan - work that typically requires at least partial
destruction of ceilings and walls - you would
probably not want to undertake extensive
sheetrocking, plastering or painting until after those
projects have been finished.
Developing your Repair Plan
To begin the process of developing a repair
plan, your tenant association should conducting
building and apartment condition surveys and
complete a repair chart. After this has been done
you should schedule a formal cellar-to-roof
inspection of your building by a TIL inspector. It is
very important that members of your maintenance
and repair committee be present for this inspection,
in order to hear what the inspector has to say and to
provide input and ask questions.
In a large building the inspector will not be
able to inspect every apartment, so the committee
must make sure that she or he sees the apartments
that are in the worst condition. This helps the
inspector to get an accurate picture of the building’s
overall repair needs.
Conducting the Building and Apartment Condition
Survey
16. The building condition survey provides the
maintenance and repair committee with information
about the condition of your building’s major
systems and public areas: plumbing, electrical,
elevators, heating, structural systems, roof and
windows, etc. The survey will tell you which repairs
should be done immediately to eliminate hazardous
conditions (like repairing bad electrical connections
or faulty fixtures, or replacing broken hallway
windows) and which repairs can be postponed.
Because building conditions change, the
maintenance and repair committee should conduct
building condition surveys every three months.
The first building condition survey you
conduct will provide a general overview of
conditions in your building. Once your tenant
association has been managing the building for
several months, your committee should conduct a
more detailed and comprehensive survey to help
you develop and implement a more detailed long-
range repair plan. UHAB can help with these
surveys.
YOUR BUILDING CONDITION SURVEY SHOULD RECORD THE CONDITIONAL
OF ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
• - Sidewalk, steps and front stoop
• - Exterior walls of the building
• - Roof
• - Basement
• - Boiler room and boiler
• - Stairs and stairwells
• - Elevator
• - Outside doors (front, back, roof, and basement)
• - Intercom
• - Entrance or lobby and hallways
• - Hallway windows
• - Fire escapes
• - Light fixtures
• - Plumbing
• - Wiring
The maintenance and repair committee also
needs to conduct apartment condition surveys for
every apartment in the building. The apartment
17. condition surveys can tell you what repairs need to
be done in individual apartments. Second, and
equally important, the process of completing these
surveys allows everyone in the building to become
involved in the repair process.
Rather than simply distributing apartment
condition surveys to tenants and asking them to fill
them in on their own, it is a good idea to have a
repair committee member work with each tenant to
complete the survey. If the surveys are simply
pushed under doors or left in the lobby, tenants may
be confused as to how to complete them and may
not return them on time. Also, since committee
members will eventually need to visit every
apartment in the building in order to officially
inspect conditions, it makes sense to inspect and fill
out the survey in one visit.
Apartment surveys let tenants offer their
opinions about what repairs are needed in their own
apartments. They can also help you find out
whether or not your building is in compliance with
the law on matters such as window guards, lead
paint, and smoke detectors. As residents discuss the
surveys with each other they begin to realize that
there are problems throughout the building and not
just in their own apartments. By helping tenants to
understand how their repair requests fit with the
needs of the rest of the building, the process of
conducting apartment and building condition
surveys can help to eliminate the “landlord-tenant
mentality” and encourage residents to become more
actively involved.
Building and Housing Codes
18. Regular quarterly building and apartment
condition surveys will not only keep your
maintenance and repairs committee aware of the
overall shape of the building, they will alert the
committee to situations which violate local laws
and/or New York City’s housing maintenance code.
3 MAIN Classifications
A - non-hazardous violations
B - potentially hazardous violations
C - immediately hazardous conditions
(see page 37)
Code violations are a very serious problem.
The association must obey local laws regarding
sanitation, building permits, handicapped access,
recycling, etc. If a City building inspector
discovered code violations the last time your
building was inspected, a list of these violations
should be on file with the Office of Rent and must
be added to your repair chart, even if they were not
noticed by your maintenance and repair committee
during the building condition survey. (See the
Resources section of this manual for a completed
list of building code violation classifications, and
information about where to go to find out about
your building’s recorded code violations.)
Developing a Repair Budget
The maintenance and repair committee needs a
budget in order to know how much money is
available for repairs, and to make the best possible
decisions about improving building conditions with
limited resources. Working with the tenant
association officers, members of the committee
should review the association’s annual budget and
past years’ repair expenses and assist the officers in
19. projecting anticipated expenses for future repair
needs.
Once an annual budget is completed and
approved, the members of the maintenance and
repair committee must carefully review the amounts
budgeted for repairs. These figures are included in
specific categories on the Budget Monitoring Sheet
(see Volume 4 of the Homesteader’s Handbook
series, Banking, Budgets and Rents). The committee
should use these budget numbers to develop a repair
schedule for the year ahead. This will help you
decide how much money to spend, or to recommend
spending, every month. The committee should also
monitor repair spending each month and adjust
spending as necessary throughout the year.
Setting Priorities
No tenant association ever has the financial
resources it would need to do all of the necessary
repairs at once. This means that the maintenance
and repair committee will have to decide which
repairs are going to be done first, which second and
third and so on. Using your budget and your repair
policy, you can set repair priorities for everything
on your list, in order of importance.
EMERGENCY
Conditions that threaten health or safety.
PREVENTIVE
Conditions that if left unresolved will become emergencies, leading to major damage or
destruction of the building, and will cost significantly more if done later rather than
sooner.
COSMETIC
Repairs that only affect the appearance of the building, an apartment, or a public area.
Most repairs fall into one of three priority
categories: emergency, preventive, or cosmetic.
You can decide which is which by using the
following guidelines:
20. EMERGENCY REPAIRS
Regular and preventive maintenance and
prompt minor repairs will prevent most emergencies
from ever happening, but sometimes problems do
arise. The tenant association has to be prepared for
emergencies before they occur, and ready to
respond quickly and effectively. To prepare for
emergencies the association needs a plan which
includes:
• A completed occupancy survey, so that you
know exactly who lives in every apartment.
• The name and phone numbers (home and
work) of the tenant association officer that
residents should notify in case of emergency
• A current list of emergency phone numbers
including: fire, police, gas and electric,
hospital etc.
• A current list of contractors, especially
plumbers, electricians and boiler
servicepeople, who are on call 24 hours a
day. This is important in case an emergency
occurs at 11:00 PM, such as heating or
electrical problems, that can’t wait until
morning to be repaired.
• A resident who will take responsibility for
contacting your TIL coordinator to inform
him/her of the emergency when it happens,
and how your association intends to address
it.
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
Preventive maintenance is work that must be
done regularly in order to minimize the possibility
of having building components or systems break
down unexpectedly and require costly emergency
repairs. Preventive maintenance is always much
cheaper and easier than repairs. Examples of typical
preventive maintenance activities are contained in
the Preventive Maintenance Checklist included in
the Resources section of this manual. Each year,
21. your maintenance and repair committee should
review this checklist to make sure that all the items
on it are being addressed. Dividing the
responsibilities on the list between the super and
several members of the committee or other tenants
who are capable of completing the required tasks
will make it easier to get everything done.
COSMETIC REPAIRS
Cosmetic repairs are generally things which
make a building or an apartment more comfortable
or attractive, like painting. Since cosmetic repairs
are neither emergencies nor preventive
maintenance, they have a lower priority when
you’re deciding which repairs to do first. This does
not mean that these repairs are not important.
Sometimes, a small repair can make a big difference
to the quality of life in your building, such as
switching from low-wattage to high-wattage light
bulbs in hallways and public areas.
It can be very difficult for the maintenance and
repair committee to establish priorities for cosmetic
repairs without disputes or conflicts. Because there
are no absolute rules or guidelines that specify that
one tenant’s wall must be fixed before another’s
floor, many residents tend to believe that their own
repair needs are more important than others, and
that they must be fixed first. To try to reduce these
conflicts, it’s a good idea to have your maintenance
and repair committee create a clear procedure for
making cosmetic repair decisions, and carefully
explain this procedure to all tenants. In preparing
this procedure, the committee will want to consider
the issues outlined on the following page.
—Issues to consider by the Maintenance &
Repair Committee—
COURT ORDERS
Sometimes a judge will order the association to
complete a number of cosmetic repairs in an
individual tenant’s apartment. These repairs must be
given a high priority.
22. BUDGET FACTORS
Your tenant association’s available financial
resources may limit your options. In the short term
you may have only enough money to do a few small
repairs. It is a good idea to begin building a reserve
account, setting aside a small amount each month to
save for more costly repairs.
UPCOMING MAJOR REPAIRS
Don’t forget to review your repair plan and
budget now for anticipated future major repairs.
You should do this before spending any money on
cosmetic work. Also, if TIL is planning to do major
work on your building, you will want to postpone
cosmetic repairs that might be damaged or
destroyed in the process of construction.
TENANT IMPACTS
As a general rule, you should try to spend
money in ways that benefit the largest possible
number of tenants. This will encourage residents to
participate in building improvement efforts, and to
support the tenant association.
TENANT NEEDS
Some cosmetic repairs are more important than
others. For example, a cracked and uneven floor
that might cause people to trip and fall may be
given higher priority than a small hole in the wall.
TENANT PARTICIPATION
Your committee might choose to reward
tenants who pay their rent promptly and contribute
their time to the association by giving their repair
requests a higher priority than those of tenants who
don’t participate.
PREVIOUS REPAIRS
Keep a record of when repairs have been done
in each apartment. If a tenant has had no work done
23. in their apartment for some time, that apartment
might receive a higher priority for cosmetic repairs
than one that has received work more recently.
Energy Conservation and Weatherization
Energy conservation and weatherization is one
of your tenant association’s most important long-
term maintenance concerns. If you forecast your
building’s expenses over the next ten years or more,
you will quickly see that spending a small amount
of time and money on energy conservation now will
more than pay for itself in the future. Five dollars’
worth of weather-stripping around a window today
could save you five dollars off your fuel each year
for the next ten years - repaying your investment ten
times over.
Fossil fuels like oil and natural gas are also
major contributors to the pollution of our air, land
and water. The more efficiently we use them, the
less pollution they create. Oil and gas are among
your building’s greatest expenses, so reducing
consumption is both a good way to reduce pollution
and a way to save hundreds or event thousands of
dollars, and keep your rents as low as possible.
Tenant Self-Help
Although the tenant association is responsible
for managing maintenance and repairs to your
building while it is enrolled in the TIL program,
individual tenants can do many repairs in their own
apartments. Tenant repairs should be approved by
the tenant association and monitored and
coordinated by the maintenance and repair
committee, to ensure completeness and quality.
Since repairs represent one of the biggest items in
most tenant associations’ budgets, self-help repairs
can save your lots of money - especially when you
realize that roughly two-thirds of a contractor’s fees
go to paying for labor. Money saved through self-
help repairs can then be made available for other
building projects.
24. Perhaps more importantly, when tenants work
together to do repairs for themselves, they increase
the overall level of participation in the tenant
association, and they learn a great deal about what
goes into actually the jobs. This will make you
much more knowledgeable about repairs, and that in
turn will make it much easier for you when it comes
time to hire and manage outside contractors.
Technical help and some materials for self-
help projects can usually be obtained from TIL, and
UHAB can also provide technical assistance. A
UHAB coordinator will visit your building to help
you organize self-help maintenance and repair
projects. Don’t forget, however, that rental income
is essential to your building’s survival, so your
association is not allowed to offer rent abatements
for self-help repair efforts (including labor and
materials) in either individual apartments or public
areas of the building. This would be a violation of
TIL regulations.
Implementing Your Plan
As soon as the maintenance and repair plan is
delivered to your tenant association, the repair
committee and officers should meet to discuss a
budget and schedule for doing the first few repairs
on the association side of the list. Meanwhile, the
first repairs on the HPD side of the plan will be
approved, prioritized, processed, bid on and
awarded.
While the maintenance and repair committee is
handling the association repair responsibilities,
someone on the committee should stay in regular
contact with the TIL coordinator to find out when
HPD repairs will begin. When notified by TIL that
repair work has been awarded, the repair and
maintenance committee should request a pre-
construction meeting with the TIL construction
manager and the contractor who will be doing the
work. Pre-construction meetings provide you with
an opportunity to find out exactly how the
contractors will gain access to your building; what
parts of the building will be affected by the work-
25. in-progress, and for how long; who will monitor the
work and inspect the job after completion; and
which tenants and which workers will be the on-site
contacts for the contractor, tenant association and
TIL. They also give you a chance to brief the
contractors about any special needs or conditions in
your building - such as the presence of babies or
people with respiratory illnesses, whose health
might be affected by conditions during construction.
Pre-construction meetings do not happen
automatically. If your tenant association wants to
schedule a meeting, it is up to the officers and the
committee to request it and to follow-up repeatedly
with TIL or the contractor until the meeting occurs.
When it does happen, the association should make
sure that TIL, the contractor and the association are
clear about each other’s responsibilities in handling
the job professionally and cooperatively.
Section 4
WORKING WITH EMPLOYEES & OUTSIDE
CONTRACTORS
Working with your Superintendent
Many buildings employ a superintendent,
janitor or handyman to perform routine maintenance
and repair work. Like any other employee, your
super must sign a written contract with the tenant
association. The contract should describe the
super’s pay schedule (the amount he or she will be
paid), pay frequency, and job responsibilities. The
super’s contract should clearly specify exactly what
types of jobs the super will and will not be expected
to do, as well as to whom she or he will report. A
typical schedule of the superintendent’s
responsibilities is included in the Resources section
of this manual.
Using the Super to make Repairs
26. When building maintenance and repairs need
to be done, the first step your association should
take is to find out whether or not they are part of
your super’s regular duties, as listed in his or her
contract. The association can save a great deal of
money by using the super to do routine small jobs.
If the needed repair work is not part of the
super’s job description, you will have to decide if
she or he is capable and qualified to do the work,
and whether you want the super or an outside
contractor to do it. Your building should have a
policy on whether the super will be allowed to
contract with the association for work that falls
outside of his or her job description.
If you do hire your super to do additional
repairs, it is always a good idea to sign a separate
contract for that work, just as you would with an
outside contractor, including the price,
specifications and time schedule. When hiring the
super to do extra work, be sure to adhere to the
regulations in the by-laws that provide guidelines
for bids, references and work authorization. Also, if
the super is awarded any contract for special work,
make sure that he or she does not neglect his or her
regular duties. For example, additional work
projects should never be performed during normal
working hours, when you are already paying for the
super’s services.
Supervising Employees
If your building has employees, such as a
superintendent, janitor or handyperson, a member of
your maintenance and repair committee should
serve as the employees’ direct supervisor. Building
residents should be informed of who the employees’
supervisor is. Any tenants’ complaints or
suggestions should be provided in writing to the
designated supervisor. The supervisor should be a
member of the maintenance and repair committee,
and should maintain files on the building’s
employees. Employee files should include:
• A copy of the employee’s contract.
27. • A written job description and work
schedule.
• Any letters of notification from tenants or
committee members describing problems
with or praising the employee’s
performance.
• Any minutes of meetings the super or
employee has participated in.
• Any relevant tax records for the employee.
Your superintendent has the legal right to join
a union, and you cannot prevent him or her from
doing so. If your building signs a contract with a
union super, you must negotiate in good faith with
the union and abide by the terms of the contract. If
the super is not performing his or her job, you must
notify the super in writing stating specifically how
and why he or she is not fulfilling the job
description. If the situation does not improve,
several steps need to be taken:
1. Write a letter to the super explaining the
specific problem or problems and your wish
to resolve them.
2. Meet with the super and try to develop a
solution to the problem.
3. Finally, if all else fails, you may have to fire
the super.
Scopes of Work and Specifications
Whenever you enter into an agreement for
maintenance and repair services, whether it is with a
building employee performing work that goes
beyond his or her normal duties, or with an outside
contractor, it is very important that you develop a
clear and complete scope of work, and in some
cases detailed specifications, for the project.
28. A scope of work is a description of the work
for which the contractor is being hired, including
the materials to be used, guarantees, permits and
other relevant information. A “specification” is
more than a scope. A specification is a detailed
description of the exact materials and methods
required for the job. A specification leaves nothing
up to the discretion of the contractor. While it is not
always necessary to develop a specification (for
many jobs a scope of work will suffice) a full
specification is always recommended for complex
and costly work where precise instructions are
required to assure that the job is done properly.
Your tenant association made hire an architect or
engineer to prepare the scope of work and
specifications.
Hiring Outside Contractors
Before hiring any outside contractors, the
maintenance and repair committee should first refer
to Article XI of the association’s by-laws for
specific guidelines to use when finding, selecting
and hiring contractors.
The committee can then begin to solicit bids
for work. For simple, inexpensive jobs, contractors’
bids may be solicited through telephone
conversations. A committee member can simply
call several contractors, describe the job that needs
to be done, and ask for the following information:
• The contractor’s price for the job.
• A general schedule for completing the job,
with starting and ending dates.
• An understanding of who will be responsible
for obtaining any permits required to do the
work in question.
• Evidence that the contractor has the
necessary licenses and insurance to do the
job.
• Schedule for payment
For more
complicated and
expensive jobs,
29. written bids must be
obtained.
To solicit written bids, a member of the
maintenance and repair committee should call
several qualified contractors and ask them to visit
the building to review the project. After they have
carefully inspected the work to be done, they should
submit a bid in writing to the association. Written
bids should include all of the information above, as
well as a list of the names, addresses and phone
numbers of references, a specific “scope of work”
and possibly a “specification” for the job.
Project Bidding Guidelines
In order to comply with the by-laws and to
protect yourselves, the following guidelines should
be used by committees and officers when soliciting
contractors to do work in their building:
Jobs Costing Under $500
• The committee should get telephone bids from at least two different contractors
• TIL by-laws allow the maintenance and repair committee to authorize repairs
costing up to $500 (unless the by-laws have been amended)
• Before work begins, the contractor should provide the committee with a
satisfactory scope of work.
Jobs Costing More than $500 but under $2000
• At least two written bids must be obtained.
• At least two references must be called for each contractor whose bid is being
considered.
30. • A satisfactory written scope of work must be submitted with each bid.
Specifications may be required if the work to be performed is complicated or
costly.
• TIL by-laws empower the maintenance and repair committee to solicit bids and
interview contractors, but they must submit their recommendation to the
association’s officers for final authorization.
Jobs Costing More than $2000
• A minimum of three written bids, each including at least a detailed scope of work,
must be obtained.
• At least two references shall be called for each contractor whose bid is being
considered.
• A written “specification” may be required for complicated or costly jobs.
• TIL by-laws allow the maintenance and repair committee to solicit bids and
interview contractors, but they must submit their recommendation to the officers
for final authorization
• Before hiring any contractor, jobs costing more than $2000 must be approved by a
majority of the tenants at a general meeting.
After selecting a contractor to do a job, the
officers and committee should prepare and sign a
formal contract. A contract is a written agreement
between your association and the contractor that
protects your association from misunderstandings
about the work, schedule or price. Every job should
have at least a simple contract
Contracts should include the following:
•A scope of work.
•Specifications, if needed.
•A schedule for the job, including start and
completion dates.
•A payment schedule, with a “hold back” provision
enabling you to withhold part of the contractor’s
31. payment (usually 10% of the total fee) until after
the job has been satisfactorily completed.
•A detailed breakdown of costs showing both
materials and labor costs.
•An inventory and description of the materials to be
used, their cost, and stipulation as to who will
take possession of any leftover materials.
•The number of people the contractor expects to
have working on the job
•Evidence that all necessary permits have been
obtained.
•On complicated jobs, provisions for cost overruns,
time delays, and changes (called change orders)
should be written into the contract. Issues
covered should include who in the association is
authorized to approve changes, and when the
contractor must notify the association of a
proposed change.
Supervising and Monitoring Contractors
Whenever outside contractors are working in
your building, it is the responsibility of the
maintenance and repair committee to make sure that
someone is assigned to supervise and monitor their
progress. Every contract should include a clause
stating that at least 10% of the total cost of the job
will be withheld from the contractor until the
completed job is inspected and approved by the
committee.
Contractors Hired by TIL
When a contractor is provided through the TIL
program, the tenant association will not be signing a
contract, because technically that contractor’s will
be working for TIL, rather than for your building.
To ensure that these jobs go smoothly and that you
receive quality work, your maintenance and repair
committee must stay in close communication with
the TIL coordinator so as to be prepared beforehand
when a contractor comes to work in the building.
Before the contractor begins work, request his
or her scope of services from your TIL coordinator
32. and review it carefully so that you clearly
understand what the contractor is supposed to do.
Assign an on-site monitor to meet the contractor
when he or she arrives. Take the workers’ names
and their supervisor’s name and phone number, and
let them know about any special conditions in the
building that they need to be prepared for. (For
example, if a tenant in one of the apartments refuses
contractors access unless someone from the
maintenance and repair committee comes along.).
Call the TIL coordinator, construction manager or
unit chief immediately if there is a problem.
Assign one M&R committee member to be the
Building Improvement Coordinator (BIC). The BIC
will be the liason between the T.A. and the City on
all repair issues. The City will provide the BIC with
the scopes of work for your building, contractors
assigned and HPD staff responsible for supervising
the work. The BIC is responsible to communicate
all information to the T.A..
Conclusion
Maintenance and repair play a crucial role in
the life of your building, and successful
maintenance and repair depends on solid
performance of other aspects of building
management: budgeting, committees, participation,
rent collection and communication.
During your building’s enrollment in the TIL
program, your tenant association needs to establish
effective maintenance and repair policies, gather
essential information about your building’s
condition, develop and monitor compliance with the
repair plan, prioritize and budget for maintenance
and repairs, oversee ongoing maintenance and
repair work in the building, and, finally, make sure
that the super is doing a satisfactory job. This is
obviously a great deal of work, but it will pay great
benefits once you make the conversion to being a
co-op. Then the tenants will be well prepared to
maintain the building in accordance with the
standards required by the law - and more important
33. - in a condition that makes all of its residents
pleased and proud to be living there.
Effective performance of maintenance and
repair tasks will give your building’s residents a
sense of pride and of allegiance to your tenant
association. As the physical condition of the
building improves, tenants see clear evidence that
TIL really works. Their confidence in the program
and in themselves grows, and they can take
satisfaction that their hard work is paying off.
RESOURCES
Preventive Maintenance Checklist
Roof
• Clean drains and keep them clear
• Replace or repair loose or missing coping stones
• Check for cracks or blisters in the roofing, and repair as needed
• Sweep off any standing water after rains
Windows and Doors
• Keep all wooden parts freshly painted
• Check putty and replace as needed
• Lubricate all hinge and lock mechanisms frequently, especially in wet or
cold weather
• Check latches and locks, and repair and replace immediately
Plumbing
• Repair leaky faucets as they’re reported
• Check for plumbing leaks and repair immediately
• Clean out sink traps and building trap (in basement) if draining is slow
34. Electrical
• Check operation of appliances and lighting
• Inspect tenant wiring periodically and eliminate any fire hazards
• Make sure there is easy access to meter and switches
• If your building has fuses rather than circuit breakers, replace fuses a needed
and keep a good supply available
• Make sure that correct amperage fuses are being used
• Keep meters clean as well-lit
• Make sure that cables and conduits are firmly attached to walls or beams,
and that nothing is hanging from them
Exterior Walls
• Maintain gutters and down spouts to keep water off exterior walls
• Check condition of mortar between bricks, and repair as needed
• Check condition of caulking and weather seal around windows, doors and
skylights, and repair as needed
Heating
• Check fuel and water level of boiler daily
• Keep boiler room neat and clean
• “Blow-down” the water in the boiler once a week
• Clean or replace the boiler’s oil filter once a month, or whenever you get a
fuel delivery during the heating season
• Drain the heating risers annually (just prior to the heating season begins)
• Have the thermostat (heat timer) recallibrated annually
• Check the low water shut-off valve for proper operation
Security and Fire Safety
• Replace burnt-out light bulbs immediately
• Check smoke detectors and replace batteries annually
35. • Check to see that all valves an meters are marked for easy identification in
an emergency, and keep all keys handy for the same purpose
• Know the locations of all “service shut-offs” in our building’s basement:
heat, water, gas, electricity, etc.
• Check and maintain security of front and rear doors locks
• Secure vacant apartments against entry; check them regularly
• Repair cracks in path and sidewalks
• Check window guards annually and repair or replace if necessary
• Check fire extinguishers every six months
• Check fire escapes condition and maintain or repair as needed
• Keep fire escapes and stair corridors free of obstructions
Energy Conservation Guidelines
The following guidelines are intended to help show you ways to conserve energy
and lower your fuel bills. The guidelines begin with simple, inexpensive but effective
steps that you can and should take right away
SHORT-TERM COST-RECOVERY
Assuming that the required work is done by the tenants themselves, the
following energy conservation repairs will pay for themselves within three to
four months:
• Installing felt or vinyl gasket weatherstripping on windows and doors.
(Weatherstripping is not effective if windows are in very poor condition. In
that case, cover your entire windows with clear plastic.)
• Using butyl or silicone-latex caulk around window frames, to keep
cold air from coming in.
• Adding door sweeps at the bottoms of doors, to prevent drafts.
• Installing clear plastic storm windows (mounted inside) during the
winter months.
• Using flow-reducing shower heads, to control the amount of hot water
you use.
36. • Putting aerators on sink taps, to reduce water consumption.
• Insulating steam and hot water pipes.
• Insulating your boiler or hot water heater.
• Having your burner serviced and adjusted.
• Having your boiler tubes cleaned out and repaired.
MEDIUM-TERM COST-RECOVERY
Again assuming that tenants do the work themselves, these items will pay for
themselves in one to two years:
• Installing radiator reflectors to throw heat into the room.
• Installing metal weatherstripping on windows.
• Metal weatherstripping is more expensive than felt or vinyl, but it will
last much longer.
• Installing thermostatic radiator valves.
• Having your heat distribution system professionally balanced.
• Installing automatic door closures.
• Installing time clock thermostats, such as Heat Timers.
• Having your building’s skylights replaced or repaired.
• Installing separate gas-fired hot water heaters.
LONG-TERM COST-RECOVERY
Finally, the items listed below normally require hiring a contractor, and will
recover their cost of investment within three to eight years:
• Installing new storm windows with weatherstripping.
• Replacing old wooden windows.
• Having your old oil boiler replaced with a new, efficient model.
• Having your building’s heating plant upgraded.
• Adding new roof installation.
37. • Adding new wall insulation.
UHAB’S Guide to Maintenance and Repair has a detailed discussion of low-cost self-
help weatherization and heating system balancing, both of which you will find extremely
useful for energy conservation. Your tenant association may also request a meeting with a
UHAB coordinator, who will come out to your building to help you develop and
implement an effective energy conservation program.
Schedule of Superintendent’s Responsibilities
REGULAR CLEANING
Clean the sidewalks. Mop the entrance and vestibule daily. Sweep the stairs and
halls daily. Mop stairs and halls at least twice a week.
KEEP THE BASEMENT CLEAN.
Do not permit rubbish, garbage, furniture or debris to accumulate. Keep the
basement locked at all times.
GARBAGE COLLECTION.
Instruct tenants to put garbage in proper bags or cans. Keep cans covered and
bags closed. Move cans or bags to street on pick-up days. Refer problems to the
TA officers.
CLEAN YARDS AND AIR SHAFTS.
Inspect the roof, bulkhead and skylight. Keep roof and yard drains clean. Keep
roof, hallways and fire escapes free of all obstructions.
INSPECT ALL LIGHTS.
Ensure that lights are turned on and off at proper times. Immediately replace
burnt out bulbs in public areas and basements.
MAKE MINOR REPAIRS.
Replace fuses, shut valves to prevent floods, do minor carpentry, painting, and
plumbing as required, etc.
MONITOR TENANT MOVE-OUTS.
38. Report move-outs to the tenant association officers. All vacant apartments
should be kept clean and locked securely. They must not be used by the super
or by others. Report unlocked doors or squatters to the officers.
MAINTAIN BUILDING HEAT AND HOT WATER.
Monitor the fuel supply. Immediately notify the officers if fuel-level falls
below half a tank or if there are any other problems.
REPORT DEFECTS OR PROBLEMS.
Be alert for defects or problems in the building’s roof, windows, stairs,
plumbing, elevator, electricity, radiators, etc. and report them immediately to
the officers.
REPORT ILLEGAL CONDUCT.
Observe visitors to the building and keep all doors locked securely. Report any
illegal conduct.
BE NEAT, POLITE AND COURTEOUS.
Be available for emergencies and keep a listing of police, fire department,
hospital, boiler service, plumber and TA officers on hand.
Building Code Violations
CODE VIOLATIONS FALL INTO ONE OF THREE CLASSIFICATIONS:
Classification A
This category includes non-hazardous or cosmetic violations such as a lack of paint, no
peepholes in apartment doors, missing mirrors in self-service elevators, or failure to
provide tenants with rent receipts. These violations must be removed or corrected
within 90 days from the time they were reported.
Classification B
This category covers potentially hazardous violations such as having insufficient metal
garbage cans and covers to hold the building’s waste, inadequate lighting in the public
39. hallways, or the presence of vermin. These violations must be corrected or removed
within 60 days from the time they were reported.
Classification C
Class C violations include immediately hazardous conditions such as a defective gas
appliance that is leaking carbon monoxide, the presence of rodents, a non-functioning
central heating system, or an obstructed toilet. These violations must be corrected or
removed immediately, within 24 hours.
To obtain a computer print-out of recorded code violations for your building,
contact UHAB or your TIL coordinator.
You may also request a code violation search from the City. Your request must
be made, in writing, to the Office of Code Enforcement for your borough. The
Addresses are listed below:
Manhattan
39 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
Brooklyn
Municipal Building, Rm
809
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Bronx
1932 Arthur Ave. 3rd
Floor
Bronx, NY 10457
Queens
126-02 Queens Boulevard
Kew Gardens, NY 11415
UHAB Publications
Publicaciones de UHAB
MANAGEMENT MANUALS
MANUALES de ADMINISTRACIÓN
• A Guide for Tenants Who Manage Their Own Building
40. • ♦ Guía para Inquilinos Que Administran Su Propio Edificio
• A Guide to Cooperative Ownership
• ♦ Una Guía a la Propiedad Cooperativa
• A Guide to Payroll Bookkeeping
• (No está disponible en Español / Not available in Spanish)
• Managing Money and Keeping Records
• ♦ Administrando Dinero y Manteniendo Archivos
DEVELOPMENT MANUALS
MANUALES de DESARROLLO
• The Affordable Cooperative
• (No está disponible en Español / Not available in Spanish)
• Becoming a Cooperative
• ♦ Convirtiendose a Cooperativa
• A Guide to Rehab Feasibility
• (No está disponible en Español / Not available in Spanish)
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL UHAB AT (212) 226-4119