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After working with California condominium and homeowner associations for over 10 years with a prominent community association law firm based in Los Angeles, my wife and I decided to move to the Detroit area to be closer to extended family. I had the fortune to join up with The Meisner Law Group here as a…
Over the course of our many years practicing condominium law, we have found that co-owners and board members alike will require guidance to correct some common misconceptions about condominium living and the respective responsibilities of the co-owners, management and board of directors of the Association. Following are some thoughts on some of the most persistent…
Boards of directors of community associations (and, unfortunately, even the attorneys advising them) will sometimes mistakenly believe that co-owners are not entitled to certain Constitutional rights of due process with respect to disciplinary hearings. They might warn a co-owner not to bring their attorney to a hearing or not allow an owner to cross-examine witnesses,…
Those of us who have been involved in representing community associations (in my case, for over forty-five years) have, no doubt, experienced a situation where so-called dissidents in a community association, for clearly irrational reasons, strive to seize control of the association so they can further their “platform”, which frequently leads to the demise of…