Association Alert – Community Association Law Blog

Cancellation of an Offer to Purchase – Strictly Follow the Statute

What you need to know: Whether you are a buyer or seller when it comes to real estate contracts, you must strictly follow the statutes.  ...
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Special Assessing an Insurance Deductible Back to a Unit Owner

In Illinois, a Court recently ruled on a Condominium Association’s attempt to charge back an insurance deductible to one of its members (Gelinas v. Barry ...
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Covenants that Discriminate on Race – ARE STILL A PROBLEM

Facts The property was subject to a discriminatory restrictive covenant recorded in 1953 that stated: “No race or nationality other than the white race shall ...
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Bored – Then Run for the Board

Associations often struggle to get sufficient members to fill their Board. The common perception is that it is too much work.  It’s not, but there ...
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Do We Have to Perfectly Follow the Declaration or is Close Good Enough?

Summary An entity that ultimately bought the prior interests of the declarant learned the hard and expensive way that not perfectly following the documents can ...
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It’s Never Too Late to Ensure Your Association is Properly Insured

It has been said that insurance is the only product that both the seller and buyer hope is never used. That certainly rings true when ...
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Association/Developer Turnover Process in Less Than 1 Minute

The developer has not turned over your association but should have or the developer is about to turn over the association, but has not told ...
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