Association Alert – Community Association Law Blog

Residents are Not Owed Preferred Accommodations for Disability

Facts In May of 2016 the Association implemented a rule that allowed owners to bring furniture to the pool area for their use “but they ...
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Unit Owner Bad Behavior – When Fines are Ignored

A condominium association in the Milwaukee area was owed more than $2,000 in fines by one unit owner. For more than a year, the unit ...
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Assessment Collections and COVID-19

First, I want to thank Julie Howard and her firm NowackHoward in Atlanta, Georgia for much of this Blog (adjusted for Wisconsin Law and my ...
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Condo Association & HOA Collections in Less Than 1 Minute

Does your homeowners association have a written collection policy?  Do you need one? What should it say? Find out in this Vlog in less than ...
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Documenting a Service Animal—Is the Association Allowed to Ask? The Wrong Answer will Cost You.

Even though most private residential Associations are not subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”), the Fair Housing Act (the “FHA”) still applies ...
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Assessment Collections and COVID-19 – Part 1

The law does NOT require a Board to extend additional time to owners to pay assessments just because of the COVID 19 pandemic.  While such ...
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Thinking of Signing a Release? Do Your Homework

In a recent case out of New York (Board of Mgrs. Of 325 Fifth Ave. Condominium v. Continental Residential Holdings LLC, 139 A.D.3rd 472 (2017)) ...
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