Crazy House Rules Sometimes Make a Lot of Sense (NY)

At a co-op in Woodside, Queens, the house rules include a prohibition against locks with keys on bedroom doors. “Why would such a rule exist?” a mystified shareholder writes to the Ask Real Estate column in the New York Times. “And can we really expect the Co-op Bedroom Police to invade our bedrooms to check if we are locking our doors with the illicit locks? Why would they care?”    Read the article…………..

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