2001 Apartment management checklist available.

Brownstone Publishers, Inc., has just released the 2001 NYC Apartment Management Checklist, the resource The New York Times has called "an invaluable manual" and "...the ideal basic reference...for anyone struggling to manage a small cooperative, condominium or rental building in New York."

Published for the last 18 years, and updated annually, the NYC Apartment Management Checklist contains comprehensive, easy-to-use coverage of the many laws that govern the city's apartment buildings. In more than 400 pages, it shows owners and managers how to comply with those laws and regulations and avoid penalties as high as $25,000 a day.

Each of the 45 chapters covers the specific law(s) and tells who is affected by it, what the law requires, how to comply, when deadlines occur, what the penalty for violating the law is, what form(s) to file, and whom to contact for more information. Plus, the official text of each law is provided.

This year, the Checklist covers the latest information from the FPA on how and when to give tenants information about lead paint when renovating apartments and common areas, the new Fire Department rules requiring owners to prepare and distribute fire safety plans to occupants and employees, new DEP rules for installing and maintaining backflow prevention devices, and the new HPD regulations requiring the distribution of lead paint notices and pamphlets to new and renewing tenants, plus conducting annual apartment inspections for lead paint. Also included are the latest changes on exterior building wall inspections, water bill savings, flameproofing of common area decorations, water conservation, and sign postings.

The 2001 NYC Apartment Management Checklist features valuable extras updated for 2001 -- the NYC building management calendar, with all the key dates and deadlines needed to run an apartment building, the building manager's telephone directory, listing the names of current officials and phone numbers at key city, state, and federal agencies, the DHCR directory, including contact names, addresses, and phone numbers at both the DHCR and borough and district rent offices, and more than 40 pages of actual forms that owners need to file to comply with the laws discussed.