Not Everyone Is a Shareholder, Most Are "Cooperators"...

What I've found in my experience here (and its been QUITE the experience) is that we have certain groups of people who talk a lot but do very little.

Some hide behind history.  Others have a strong sense of entitlement based upon that history.  And then there are the straight up racists who seem not to know what country this Coop is located within   and that brown skinned people have an absolute right to purchase shares.

If you didnt put the money down to occupy your apartment as a legitimate Shareholder, you definitely do not have as much to lose as those of us who bought into the shadenfreude that is the Amalgamated Housing Corporation. If you live with your mother and you didn't work a day in your life to save the money that paid for the equity and the shitty paint job and the cost for your name on the door and the buzzer downstairs, you really should keep your mouth shut and fade to black. Same goes for anyone who hijacked an apartment that belonged to a family member of their respective spouse. Or if you transferred to another apartment as a perk for serving as a Board member...and now the apartment you transferred to is illegitimate because you didnt have the right to transfer in the first place because you weren't a Shareholder, your father or mother was, but you were not. Sit down and shut up please.

And a special shout out goes to the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center which advertises apartments in the Amalgamated Housing Corp and Park Reservoir. Most of us figured out long ago that the priority lists were full of VCJC referrals.

My full sympathy goes to anyone who waited on that fraud of a waiting list, paid for that ridiculous background check/investigation fee and used their hard earned savings to purchase shares for a Coop that is looking more and more like a half-way house for mama's boys who cannot function in society, drug addicts, criminals and misfits. You have the perfect set of circumstances to demand your investments back now.

UGH.