By Roland Li
To live reasonably happily ever after in your new apartment, you need to start off on the right foot with your neighbors, your board, the staff and the management company.
1. Get to know your board
If you don’t already know the names and faces of your board members, find out. Your goal is to establish a cordial relationship in the elevator and lobby.
2. Staff Relations
If you really want to start off on the right foot, consider a move-in tip to anyone in the building who helps you at all during the process, whether it’s the superintendent, the doorman or a porter.
3. Neigbohr Relations
Having a close relationship with neighbors is not just nice, it can help prevent disasters when you go on vacation.
4. Your property manager
Depending on the size of your building (large ones have an on-site resident manager, for instance), the property manager may also be your first stop when anything goes wrong in your apartment–from a sudden infestation of roaches (or worse) to traveling cigarette smoke from the apartment downstairs. He or she also makes the call on whether certain gray-area repairs are the building’s financial responsibility or yours.
Read more: http://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2013/03/just_moved_in_tips_for_first_time_owners
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