Association Alert – Community Association Law Blog
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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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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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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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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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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Collections – Reconciliation of Unit Owner Ledgers and Conversations with Unit Owners
When a Board or Property Manager sends a Unit Owner to its attorneys for collection, the Board or Property Manager should refer ALL communications from ...
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Short-Term Rentals—A Tale of Two Cases
Courts across the country have been hearing cases about short-term rentals of homes and condominium units, and there is not much consistency in the decisions ...
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