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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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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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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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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Can I Use the Prohibition on “Commercial Activity” to Preclude Short Term Rentals?

Those of us involved in condominium management, whether as board members, officers, property managers or attorneys, know that VRBO and AirBnB have changed the way ...
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Inspection Rights of Unit Owners are NOT Endless

Disgruntled unit owners love to review their association documents and then demand every document that they think they might be entitled to.  In this case, ...
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