Businesses should seek to avoid disputes and lawsuits wherever possible through effective documentation, communication, risk management and alternative dispute resolution. But in our litigious American society, it is a fact of life that businesses are routinely sued, both for good reasons and for questionable ones (for example, see our blog post on howGo to Resource
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TOPS, a national provider of software for community association management, recently released its snapshot of the HOA Industry by the numbers. Below are a few interesting ones that might get you thinking about your association and how it operates: 53% of owners say their assessments are less than $100 per month – rememberGo to Resource
Over the summer, a picture was floating around on different social media sites and news outlets. Headlines read: “How to Respond When Your Homeowners Association Won’t Let you Fly the American Flag” or “Man Paints House like American Flag in Protest”. The original story was that a homeowner in Cambridge, Maryland was bannedGo to Resource
We’ve all heard the horror stories of over the top holiday decorations. TLC has gone so far to do a show aptly names “Invasion of the Christmas Lights”. We’ve all watched the glorious moment when Clark Griswold dramatically plugs in his Christmas lights only to find out there’s a problem, but eventually withGo to Resource
We often read blogs by our colleagues across the country and found this one too funny not to share with our readers. What follows is a repost of a blog by David Swedelson, Partner at SwedelsonGottlieb. As community association attorneys, we are often called upon to deal with neighbor to neighbor complaints andGo to Resource