Category: Wisconsin
Can a New Capital Project be Paid by Annual Assessments – YES
1 April 2024
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
1 April 2024
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?
1 April 2024
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
1 April 2024
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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Just Because a Resident Has a Disability, an Accommodation May Not Be Reasonable
1 April 2024
Facts The parties to this suit both reside in a condominium association. Each party owns a unit, and each has parking spaces. The dispute is ...
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Short-Term Rentals—A Tale of Two Cases
1 April 2024
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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Collections – Reconciliation of Unit Owner Ledgers and Conversations with Unit Owners
1 April 2024
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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Assessment Collections and COVID-19 – Part 2
1 April 2024
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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What is the Difference Between Community Association Directors and Officers?
1 April 2024
I recently read an article on the difference between condominium and homeowner association officers and directors by an attorney out of Ohio, Jennifer B. Cusimano ...
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Wisconsin 2021 Senate Bill 283 – Maintenance and Repair of Private Roads
1 April 2024
2021 Senate Bill 283 is being proposed to create Section 710.20 of the Wisconsin Statute relating to the maintenance and repair of private roads with ...
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