My co-op is in Queens, NY. To answer Lisa's question, my co-op does have a mangement company. The problem is I have been compaining for years. They don't act because they are afraid of a lawsuit from the man I have been complaining about. In 1999, he threatened to sue because he lost the board election after the orginal election was delayed for 6 weeks because we didn't have enough votes to hold it on the orginal date. He felt that if the election was held on the actual date, he would have won. He didn't so he hired a lawyer and was in the process of suing. It was writhdrawn when the co-op threaten to go through eviction procidings if he went through the lawsuit.