Month: March 2020

Last week we suggested that now was a good time to consider spending some time reviewing your declaration and finally trying to amend those provisions that need amending.  I hope you listened. Since we’re not quite back to life being normal, keep busy and now think about amending your rules.  Some general guidelines first: Rules…

You’re under a virtual quarantine?  Haven’t been to work in a while?  Feeling a little trapped in your home?  If you’re a Board member…….when the going gets tough……..that’s no time to shirk your responsibilities and turn off the world.  In fact, believe it or not, now may be the perfect time to attack projects that…

We all remember just how bad our communities suffered about a dozen years ago during the great recession.  Our firm represented condominiums where nearly half of all units went into foreclosure.  It was terrible for community associations.  The paying owners were often times forced to pay double to make up for the monies not being…

Wow what a difference a week makes!  The world became different this week, like nothing most of us have ever seen or lived through before.  For the time being, this Corona Virus has changed life as we know it, requiring us not to stay inside and hide, but not to tempt fate, while staying smart…

I can’t hold it in any longer.  I must tell someone.  I have been less than honest with the readers of this blog and the listeners to the Condo Craze and HOAs Radio Show.  I’m a fake and a fraud. The truth is…………despite the fact that I urge all of you out there to get…

In the housing context, pursuant to The Fair Housing Act, a reasonable accommodation is a change in a rule, policy, practice, or service that may be necessary to allow a person with a disability the equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling. Failure to provide a reasonable accommodation may be construed as discrimination.  In…