Living in a coop can be a wonderful thing.\u00a0 It can have great social benefits.\u00a0 You have in-house maintenance, pool membership for an unreasonably excessive fee, and tennis courts that are rarely used by the residents because:
\n\u00a0(a) the fees are too high;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0(b) there are many seniors who no longer consider tennis a viable pastime; \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
(c) in order to play you have to pick up keys at the security office, since the project for card keys was never completed;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
(d) the tennis courts and the fencing around the courts are not maintained well enough to be safe and secure for residents,<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0or<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
(e) all of the above.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Horizon House is one of the older coops in Fort Lee with six buildings, a management company, but no manager. Instead, we have management by committee. There is a maintenance supervisor, whose performance I personally find very questionable, and a Board of Trustees that are elected by the residents.\u00a0\u00a0 The Board is composed of resident\/candidates that consistently run on platforms that promise that things will get better in the complex, but that just never seems to happen.<\/p>\n
In late May, our Horizon doorman was handing out flyers to residents regarding the tennis courts. There are only two tennis courts for the entire complex of six buildings.\u00a0\u00a0 The flyers indicated that the tennis courts would be closed in June for resurfacing (estimated time \u2013 3 weeks) and fence repair.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now I\u2019m not certain what planet the Board Members are from, but on the planet Earth, the first three weeks of June are three of the prime weeks of the tennis season.\u00a0 Upon trying to call the coop Tennis chairman, Martin Chernov, I was told by his doorman that he would be on vacation until May 30.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps coincidence, perhaps convenience, the tennis chairman happens to be on vacation when these flyers are distributed.\u00a0 It certainly avoids the obvious problem of tenants questioning the wisdom or necessity for the decision to close the courts.<\/p>\n
Note: an explanation was offered that the resurfacing could not be completed in March and April due to the temperature.\u00a0 However, having investigated the veracity of this argument, I have concluded that the resurfacing could have been done in April or early May with no problem.<\/i><\/p>\n
There is currently a new flyer on the bulletin Board that says \u201cTennis signup available\u201d. It is dated June 21st.<\/b>\u00a0 Of course, most tennis players understand that the best months to play tennis are late April, May, early June, and in the fall, September and October.\u00a0 The reason is that the temperatures are more moderate.\u00a0 Playing tennis in 90+ degree weather in late June, July, and August is conducive to dehydration; sun poisoning; even possible strokes.<\/p>\n
Like I stated earlier, it is wonderful to live in a coop community where everything runs smoothly and the elected Board members are right on top of their game.\u00a0 As long as the game is not TENNIS!.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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