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    Fordham Hill Owners Corporation

    2025 Audited Financial Statements

    $18,720,450

    Your building owes this much more than it owns.

    It went up $0.04 since you opened this page.
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    $3,073,133
    $167,080

    94.6% of your reserve fund.
    Gone in one year.

    2024 Start
    2025 End

    Just $149 left per apartment. One boiler failure and it is completely gone.

    Source: Audited Financial Statements, Note 3

    $59.4M owed
    $41.5M owned

    The building owes $17.9 million more than everything it owns.

    Liabilities (Debt)$59,453,445
    Assets (Owned)$41,530,912
    The Gap
    $17,922,533 DEFICIT

    Debt per apartment: $53,179. That is your share of what this building owes.

    Source: Balance Sheet, Pages 5-6

    +9%2025
    +11%2026

    Your maintenance is going up faster than your income.

    $1,000
    2024
    $1,090
    2025
    $1,210
    2026
    Normal Inflation (~3%)

    A shareholder paying $1,000/month in 2024 will pay $1,210 by 2026. That is $2,520 more per year.

    Source: Comparative Schedule, Footnote (1), Page 24

    $1,409,492 over budget

    They promised a $397,168 surplus.
    They delivered a $1,012,324 operating loss.
    BUDGET+$397K
    ACTUAL-$1.01M

    The 2026 budget projects exactly zero surplus. Zero margin for error. Any unexpected cost means another loss year.

    Source: Comparative Schedule of Revenues and Expenditures, Page 24

    Tax break disappearing

    The J-51 abatement is phasing out. Nobody has told you how they plan to pay for it.
    2024/25
    TAX
    ABATEMENT
    2025/26
    TAX
    ABATEMENT
    2026/27
    TAX
    ABATEMENT
    2027/28
    TAX

    Real estate taxes were $4,277,131 in 2025. When the abatement hits zero, the full unabated bill hits. Maintenance goes up to cover it.

    Source: Note 1 (Tax Abatement), Supporting Schedule Page 10

    $1,715,200 in insurance debt

    They cannot afford to pay insurance upfront. So they finance it. At a cost.
    Insurance financing payable
    2024
    $1.7M
    2025
    Insurance expense trend
    $1.9M
    2023
    $2.0M
    2024
    $2.3M
    2025
    $2.7M
    2026

    Insurance premiums have more than doubled since 2022. The Board has not explained why or what they are doing about it.

    Source: Balance Sheet, Supporting Schedule Page 10

    $884,823 in avoidable losses

    While raising your maintenance, they left almost a million dollars on the table.
    Unbilled garage rent escalations$427,544
    Cable subsidy (expense minus revenue)$334,362
    Wrongful termination settlement$123,000

    $427,544 in garage rent never billed. $334,362 in cable costs that exceed cable revenue. $123,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit nobody told you about.

    Source: Notes 5, 7, 13; Supporting Schedules Pages 9-10

    Conflicts of Interest

    Board President Matthew Mbamelu is a licensed real estate agent. He collected a commission on an apartment sale he brokered inside Fordham Hill. The amount was not disclosed in the BCL 727 report.

    Vice President's Rana Abdalla's company, Alaan Group Inc., received a $50,000 contract for apartment renovation and painting. Note 12 in the financial statements describes a different transaction ($38,350 for painting). The numbers do not match.

    BCL Section 727 requires the Board to disclose these conflicts. The disclosure is missing 2 of 3 legally required categories of information.

    Source: BCL 727 Annual Report, Pages 26-27; Note 12, Page 18

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    Reserve studies conducted. Ever.
    "

    Management has not completed a study to estimate the remaining useful lives and the estimated costs of future major repairs and replacements.

    "

    9 buildings. 1,118 apartments. A 495-car garage. And nobody has studied what it will cost to maintain them.

    Source: Independent Auditors' Report, Pages 3-4

    $18,720,450
    The deficit went up $0.04 while you read this.

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    This is your building.
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