Talk to your landlord about Amazon "Key for Business". They will install at their expense a device on the buzz entry of >3 unit buildings that lets them open it themselves. Combined with a standard USPS key safe you can protect a large percentage of packages.

Lots of the hi rises have PTACs not central air

I've never given them a cent either, but obviously some people like the OP don't have the 'urban armor' we do.

My son busks, he sits and plays guitar at open air market or such and people toss money in his case if they feel like it, or they can continue walking. Far different than forcing a performance on people riding a train who cannot leave, and then hovering intimidatingly in people's faces asking for money. Worse is the fucking acrobats who put you in fear for you face.

As part of a charity ask it most definitely is a scam, as you would make sales to people who would not ordinarily be looking to buy candy, but are motivated to support "the cause". No different than demanding money after an unasked for PATH performance.

Sigh. Just to clarify for those new to this game, there's no such thing as a reval tax. Their property value was underassessed, and the taxes went up dramatically once that was corrected in the reval. $27k at 1.6% means their property was assessed at a value of $1.7m, seems about right given what was said.

Odd are this property was Downtown and not in the Heights, where properties were overwhelmingly overassessed, and paying more than they should have, prior to the reval.