Association Alert – Community Association Law Blog

Fees for Self-Renters Who Don’t Enter the Rental Pool are Legal

Facts Association Board adopted a resolution that unit owners in the Association who self-rented but did not join the rental pool would need to pay ...
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Amendments to Condominium Documents MUST be Reasonable to be Valid

Facts In 2016, a Master Association adopted seven amendments to its declaration.  The amendments addressed the Master Association’s authority to approve proposed uses of certain ...
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Your Condo Lien can be Prior to a Federal Tax Lien if you File it Correctly, Timely & for the Full Amount Due

Summary The United States District Court held that a prior recorded condominium lien had priority over a federal tax lien but only to the extent ...
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Rules that Target Children Really Target Your Association (for Discrimination Lawsuits)

Does your Association have rules that target children?  Does your Association have rules that apply differently to children and adult residents within the community?  The ...
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Unit Fire Increases Association Insurance Premiums

What happens when a fire caused within a condominium unit destroys that unit, some common area, and damages other units? It becomes an expensive situation ...
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Can a New Capital Project be Paid by Annual Assessments – YES

Walsh v. Hawthorn Hills Owners of Rochester, Inc. 2023 WL 4144757, Not Reported in N.W.Rptr (Michigan, 2023) What you need to know:
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Negligence and the Association

In a recent case out of North Carolina, Rash v. Waterway Landing Homeowners Association, Inc. 801 S.E.2d 375 (2017), a unit owner in a condominium ...
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