Association Alert – Community Association Law Blog

Turnover – Considerations for your Condominium Board of Directors and Officers

Is your condominium or homeowners association currently controlled by the declarant/developer? Would you like to be prepared when the developer is ready to hand over ...
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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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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 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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Assessment Collections and COVID-19 – Part 2

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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