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Former Cuban Major League Baseball player, Yunel Escobar, has publicly spoken out about the hazardous structural conditions of the building he resides in within Miami-Dade, demanding immediate action to ensure resident safety. Through a series of Instagram posts, Escobar detailed his personal ordeal and sharply criticized the judicial system, condominium associations, and insurance companies, accusing […]

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Q: My HOA collected 300 dollars to build a community dock that was voted on by the owners. There are apparently issues getting a permit, but the information is vague. How long can an association hold homeowners’ money? I feel there is no transparency from the board on this.   Read the Q&A………………………………..

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For the second time in as many years, many residents in a northeast Mesa retirement community last week cautiously celebrated their win in voting down a new and bigger Activity Center that would have required each of the HOA’s 2,358 households to pay thousands of dollars in an additional assessment.   Read the article…………………………….

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A long-running dispute over public coastal access in Aptos nears a courtroom resolution, after the Rio Del Mar Beach Island Homeowners Association doubled down in the face of a historic, multimillion-dollar fine from the state for fencing off a public walkway.   Read the article…………………………….

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A dredge pumping sand to renourish Kure Beach is seen through the porch of a condominium at The Riggings on Friday, March 12, 2004. Despite its proximity to the federal renourishment program, the beach area at The Riggings did not receive any sand. For years, the condominium complex has battled beach erosion with sandbags.   Read […]

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Question: I am a condo owner. Our board of directors is adamant about doing some work in my unit, even though it is not necessary. They want to replace my copper piping that they say, “has the potential to leak — it could be six months from now or three to five years, who knows, […]

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Following the Surfside building collapse, lawmakers went to work to put guidelines in place to ensure a tragedy like that would not happen again. Condo units in buildings at least three stores tall need to have structural integrity reserve studies. The goal is to ensure condo buildings have the funds to make needed or necessary […]

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Q: Per our bylaws, renters cannot have pets. A renter resident here has two dogs that she claims are service dogs and therefore she can have them. Can one person have two service dogs? –   Read the Q&A………………………………..

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A new voice has joined the growing chorus calling for reform of New York City’s inequitable and unloved system of levying property taxes. This new voice claims that the owners of high-end co-ops and condos are benefitting unfairly at the expense of less well-off New Yorkers.  Read the article…………………………….

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The Horizon West Condo Association officially ceased to exist after several years of fighting with the city and county regarding who is responsible for paying for the now empty lot on West Avenue. The Horizon West Condo Association and owners previously argued that their condo units are “boxes of air” after the building was razed […]

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Funeral home mogul Robert “Dick” Tips is taking a San Antonio homeowners association to court over its removal of a billboard from property he owns. Tips, chairman and CEO of Mission Park Funeral Chapels & Cemeteries, alleges “one or more persons believed to have been acting on behalf or in conspiracy” with the Coronado Enclave […]

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Mayra Villalona is sitting on what she thought was real estate gold. She bought a two-bed, two-bath condo near Fort Lauderdale in 2021 for $145,000, hoping to pounce on pandemic-era real estate prices. “This is really a great community to live in,” Villalona told CBS News. “It’s just to me, for me, it’s not an […]

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As final work was being completed on units within the Frances Condominiums on D Street in Lake Oswego this week, a small fire ignited — leading the water sprinkler system to damage many units within the complex. The Lake Oswego Fire Department responded to the fire at 2:38 a.m. Wednesday, April 23. When firefighters arrived, […]

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These Wall Streeters would trade anything for a good night sleep.  Residents at a Financial District condo building have had their lives upended after a neighboring building installed emergency generators right beneath their windows — tormenting them with constant ear-shattering that sent some fleeing the state. For three long weeks, the three massive commercial generators […]

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Three years after the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire ravaged the site of a mountain community and resort, those charged with managing the land are still awaiting compensation from FEMA.  Debbie Simpson, accepted the position of executive director of the Pendaries Village Community Association in Rociada in June 2023.    Read the article…………………………….

The post Three Years Later: Lengthy claims process continues to frustrate fire victims, elected leaders (NV) first appeared on Community Associations Network.

Condo owners in Modesto’s Walnut Orchards community are protesting a proposed $25,000 special assessment per unit to replace balconies, some of which were deemed unsafe by the city of Modesto. Red tags and caution tape recently appeared on at least eight balconies in the gated condominium complex. The city of Modesto says they need to […]

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The management company refuted claims but didn’t want to go on camera.  Video news report……………………..

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Tom Stickler and Stephen Goldfinch agreed that the wording of a new zoning district for the Founders Club and Litchfield Country Club golf courses needs more work, and were pleased that the Georgetown County Planning Commission last week urged County Council to defer action, but not for the same reason. Stickler, president of the Hagley […]

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A mayoral candidate in Iowa Colony faces an assault charge following a confrontation outside a clubhouse in the Sterling Lakes subdivision. It’s where tensions over his role as Property Owners Association (POA) board president boiled over.  Douglas Chumley, who serves as both the Sterling Lakes POA board president and Iowa Colony mayoral hopeful, was arrested […]

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Over the years, the various condo boards at a small converted loft building commissioned several facade engineering studies. All of them discovered noticeable cracking and recommended remediation. Each board apparently believed that a long-standing brick building was safe, and they apparently were unwilling to pay for repairs that were not absolutely necessary, and so they […]

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