Category: Wisconsin

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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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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Just Because a Resident Has a Disability, an Accommodation May Not Be Reasonable

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

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

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

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?

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

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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