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Your Co-op’s Legal Documents

Your co-op documents are your most important tools for running your building.

Lost Stock Certificates

Learn what to do if your stock certificate is lost or destroyed.

Your Co-op Legal Documents

Your co-op documents are your most important tools for running your building. Come discuss the purpose of the bylaws, proprietary lease, certificate of incorporation, house rules and regulatory agreement…

Lost Stocks Certificates

Your stock certificate is a unique and important legal document. Learn what to do if your stock certificate is lost or destroyed.

Wills + Estates w. Rachel Jaffe, Esq., Goldstein Hall

If a shareholder passes away without a will, the HDFC and the Estate of the deceased must sort things out in court. There is no automatic inheritance of ownership…

RPIE Filing — are we exempt?

RPIE is the “Real Property Income & Expense Statements” filing required yearly by the Department of Finance to assess property values. Come find out if your HDFC has to…

Regulatory Agreement Basics

If your HDFC is planning any rehab involving NYC financing, you will be required to sign a Regulatory Agreement. If you need tax relief or any HPD assistance in…

Identify New Shareholders

How does a shareholder or HDFC sell a unit in compliance with its legal documents? What does a prospective shareholder interview look like? Must the sale use HPD’s “Housing…

DIY Wills Preparation

Join us to discuss how to create a binding will without a lawyer.

Housing Court + Fair Housing

Fair Housing Taking residents to court for nonpayment is a last resort. Come learn how housing court works and your HDFC’s obligations under NYS and NYC fair housing laws.

Your Co-op Legal Documents

Your co-op documents are your most important tools for running your building. Come discuss the purpose of the Bylaws, Proprietary Lease, Certificate of Incorporation and Regulatory Agreement and how…

Overview and Summary of HDFC Cooperative Legal Docs

Your co-op documents are your most important tools for running your building. Come discuss the purpose of the Bylaws, Proprietary Lease, Certificate of Incorporation and Regulatory Agreement and how…

Lost Stock Certificates

An overview of Stock Certificates, their importance and the ramifications of losing them.

Lost Stock Certificates

An overview of Stock Certificates, their importance and the ramifications of losing them.

Surrogates Court, Administration and Executors: When a Shareholder Passes Away

What happens to an apartment after a neighbor dies? How does the court handle ownership in cases in which there is no will? Is a court involved if there…

Know Your Legal Docs

An overview and discussion on HDFC cooperative legal documents. We will also have a questions and answer segment. Register here.

Know Your Legal Docs

An overview and discussion on HDFC cooperative Legal Documents.

Lost Stock Certificates

Learn why stock certificates are important, and what to do if your stock certificate is lost or destroyed.

Lost Stock Certificates

Learn why stock certificates are important, and what to do if your stock certificate is lost or destroyed.

Shareholder Training Part 2: Co-op Legal Docs & Elections

A discussion and overview on the co-op governing legal docs, and steps and best practices during elections.

Resources (9)


2022 Area Median Income Guidelines

HDFCs are required to house people who are low-income. Different HDFCs have different eligibility definitions, or ways of determining who qualifies as low income. These are contained in the Certificate of Incorporation.

Healthy Co-op Checklist

Learn the signs of a healthy, well-functioning HDFC

Sample Superintendent Employment Agreement

This is a sample employment agreement between an HDFC and a super.

Sample House Rules

Sample house rules contain information about quiet hours, garbage disposal, repairs, and more.

Sample Resale Policy or Amendment to Proprietary Lease

Sample policy on selling units in your HDFC, plus notes on capital improvements.

Guide to Resale Policies

Learn what your governing documents have to say about selling apartments, and how to create your own resale policy.

Sample Bylaws

This is a sample of the by-laws of of an HDFC cooperative. By-laws are part of your cooperative’s governing documents. Different HDFCs have different by-laws, depending on their year of conversion, amendments, and more.

Sales and Transfers: What documents do we need?

Checklist of the legal documents involved in the sale of a unit.

Tenant Association Articles of Association

This is a sample of a tenant association’s articles of association. A converted HDFC cooperative will be governed by bylaws, not articles of association.