Knight-Ridder

Q-I live in a condo of ground-level units. My unit is in the rear of the project, and at night the light on my walk was so dim I was...

Q--A lot of pigeons have flown into our condo complex lately. The noise and droppings are bothersome. Some time ago you wrote about some kind of chemical that could be...

In Mae Knight Clark`s world, everything--even the occasional harrowing adventure--is deliberately scaled to child size. Words tend to be small. Sentences are uncluttered and almost always over quickly. Danger arrives...

Q--We have a serious situation in our condominium. A couple living in a one-bedroom apartment have brought a five-member family to live with them. The association is taking no action...

Before there were homes, there were townhouses and farmhouses, chateaux and castles, residences everywhere. However, there was no place like home. Home, argues writer Witold Rybczynski, is a place constructed...

Q-Three years ago, small pets were allowed in our condominium. It was in our original contract, and that is one of the reasons we bought. We now have some new...

Q-Our management will not permit the use of the swimming pool before 8:30 a.m. They say it is because children will make too much noise at that hour. There are...

Q-In October 1983, I moved to a retirement community consisting of condo apartments and patio homes. One of the covenants signed at closing was that cats and dogs must not...

Q-The board of management of our condominium levied a one-time special assessment to replenish our reserve funds. The $15,000 has been in a noninterest-bearing checking account for about three months....

Q--In March of 1983 I moved into a condo and received verbal permission from the resident manager to hang a bird feeder in a tree outside my second-floor patio. Last...