The Hidden HDFC Price Tag

Imagine paying the same $300 maintenance today that your building charged decades ago. For some shareholders in New York's HDFC co-ops, that's reality, and it sounds like a dream — until you see what it costs everyone else. Aaron Weber, owner of Weber Realty Management, takes us inside a 22-unit Upper East Side building that has stayed afloat through a red-tagged elevator and a water bill that mysteriously kept climbing. Then he heads to the Bronx, where a young co-op inherited a loan it never chose. Weber also explains a city program that quietly rescues shareholders in trouble, and how your shareholders can access it. Habitat's Emily Myers conducts the interview. How To Run Your Building: For Co-ops and Condos