Resources

Guides

Plain explanations of the questionnaire and the rules around it, written for managers and boards. Free to read, no signup.

• The rule change
  What changed on August 3, 2026, when Limited Review was retired, and which loans it reaches.
• What the questionnaire asks
  The form section by section, what each one asks for, and which document the answer comes from.
• Who completes it
  Who is supposed to complete it, whether an association has to, and what happens when nobody does.
• Why questionnaires come back
  The ten answers that most often get a questionnaire returned by underwriting, and what settles each one.
• Questionnaire or estoppel
  Three documents that get confused for each other, and what separates them.
• What it costs and who pays
  What these documents cost around the country and who ends up paying for them.
• For lenders and closers
  For the lender or closing agent waiting on an answer, what the delay usually is and what moves it.

Free tools

Things you can use on your own building right now. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

• Readiness check
  Six tests a lender applies, on your own figures. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
• Board memo tool
  Turns the reserve and delinquency position into a short memo a board can read before it votes.
• Everything in one place
  This page.

Reference tables

Public data we compiled and publish because the sourced version did not exist. Every figure names the source it came from and the date it was read.

• New York managing agents
  605 New York City management companies, the co-op and condo buildings they are registered on, and the apartment counts, from the city's own files.
• Texas fees, measured
  What 581 Texas associations state in their own recorded management certificates, each row linked to the certificate it came from.
• Rules by state
  Who may prepare, what the fee is, who pays and by when, quoted from nine state statutes and cited to the subsection.

Averbrook

The desk itself, what it costs, and how the work is handled.

• Overview
  What the desk does, in short.
• See a package
  A finished package in full, prepared the same way client work is.
• Pricing
  Flat prices, published. The first package for a new client is free.
• How it works
  Documents in, package back in 24 to 48 business hours. The steps in between.
• The rules
  The agency requirements the packages are measured against, with the figures currently in force.
• Trust and handling
  How documents are handled, what is kept, and what is never asked for.
• Common questions
  The questions managers actually ask, answered in one place.
• Place an order
  Start a package. Six fields are required and the rest can follow.
• Contact
  Write to the desk.