Category: Wisconsin
Lien Priority Statutes and Why They Make Sense
1 April 2024
Facts A unit owner stopped paying assessments. The condominium association properly recorded and perfected a lien against the unit for those assessments. Under the applicable ...
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Wisconsin Condominium and Homeowner Association Owners Need to Follow their Rules Even When they Are Not Recorded.
1 April 2024
Facts When you are headed down the wrong path – TURN BACK. This applies to owners and associations when they act on their belief of ...
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Road Maintenance – Who Pays? (Duties under Association Documents and Case Law)
1 April 2024
Facts A dispute arose between four condominium associations within a master association as to obligations to pay for the maintenance, repair and upkeep of a ...
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Can a Group Home be Built in a Single Family Association under the FHA – YES
1 April 2024
Facts Plaintiff, Harmony Haus and a resident, sued Defendant, Parkstone Property Owners Association (“Association”) under the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) seeking an injunction and attorney ...
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Court Upholds Association Decision to Return Checks Containing Restrictive Language
1 April 2024
Issue When association documents require funds from owners to be applied in a certain order, can a unit owner alter how the funds are applied ...
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Registering Your Association’s Name and Logo – YES – You Absolutely Should Do It
1 April 2024
The Problem You are on the Board of your association (ABC Association). Unfortunately, as often happens, someone has decided to complain about EVERYTHING. First they ...
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Can the Association’s Documents be Contradictory and Still Enforceable?
1 April 2024
A recent New York Court dealt with an issue on leasing (Olszewski v. Cannon Point Association, Inc., 148 A.D.3d 1306 (2017)). The Board adopted rules ...
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Post-Turnover Declarant Rights? Think Again…This One has a Happy Ending for the HOA
1 April 2024
Declarant/Developers of Community Associations love to reserve themselves rights within the Declaration that extend far beyond their Declarant control powers. This is nothing new. But ...
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Directors Removed from Office – Just Follow the Documents
1 April 2024
Summary A 79-unit condominium association held a meeting to remove the directors from office and elect new ones. The president objected to the meeting, the ...
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Emotional Support Animals – If It’s Aggressive, It’s Not Reasonable
1 April 2024
Facts In 2015, Unit Owner’s dog, Maggie, was an 11-year old golden retriever. Maggie bit another dog living at the Association and had previously “displayed ...
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