Category: Wisconsin
Association Academy: Insurance – September 11, 2019
1 April 2024
How much insurance should your HOA or condo carry? Are your directors and officers covered? What happens in the unlikely event of a disaster? Please ...
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In Case You Missed It: Webinar: Aging Infrastructure – Knowing What’s at Stake
1 April 2024
In a 2020 survey by The Foundation of Community Association Research, 80% of respondents encountered unexpected and unplanned-for infrastructure issues in the last three years. ...
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You Can’t Do That
1 April 2024
This is an all too common phrase uttered by members of associations. It is most uttered when the Board is enforcing its condominium documents, including ...
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Parking Spaces – Should Your Association be Charging and Collecting Sales Tax?
1 April 2024
Yes! Thankfully, if the association has not been doing so, there is a way to reduce your back-tax liability, interest and penalties. Do you have ...
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Can Your Association End a Unit Owner’s Suit by Post-Suit Filing Actions?
1 April 2024
In Welsh v. McNeil, 162 A.3d 135 (2017) a board member and unit owner (“Board Member”) sued another unit owner (“Landlord Unit Owner”) for violation ...
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Condo and HOA Virtual/ZOOM Meetings in Wisconsin – How Legal Are They?
1 April 2024
Most condominiums and homeowner associations (HOAs) are nonstock corporations under Wisconsin Chapter 181. As such their members can make decisions one of three ways: Holding ...
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Who Says the Board Can’t Favor Resident Owners?
1 April 2024
Facts. The documents required the consent of the first floor unit owner if the second floor unit owner wanted to erect a terrace above a ...
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That Rule we Just Passed is Enforceable…Right? Think again…
1 April 2024
Most condominium associations’ Declarations and Bylaws give the Board of Directors the power to create and amend Rules and Regulations. But Boards must take caution, ...
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Implied Easements – Can You Prohibit a Neighboring Property Owner from Changing the Use of its Property?
1 April 2024
Facts This case involved a dispute between the owner/operator of a golf course and the owners of adjacent property in a residential community. Originally all ...
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Can a Court Set Aside a HOA-Lien Foreclosure Sale Because the Sales Price Was Too Low?
1 April 2024
When a mortgage company faces having its mortgage interest swept away in a quiet title action following an HOA lien foreclosure, the mortgage company comes ...
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