Does your community conduct straw polls of owners to determine if community consensus exists on a particular issue? If so, be very careful of possible political ramifications if the straw poll results are not followed by the board. Failure to follow and adhere to straw poll results came back to haunt the SunflowerGo to Resource
Category: Community Associations Miscellaneous
A community in Aurora, Colorado is in the middle of a big fight over the removal of a wheelchair ramp by the association. Although the ramp was put back up by the fire department, disabled residents living on the second and third floor units in the community now want the association to provideGo to Resource
Community associations are turning to social media as another way to provide information, enhance neighborhood connections and build community in general. In his recent blog post, Side Streets blogger Bill Vogrin explores two communities that used Facebook in an attempt to promote their neighborhoods and get their neighbors to connect. Is your associationGo to Resource
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about delinquencies in condominium associations in Florida, “The time it takes lenders to foreclose has grown longer each year. Nationwide, residential properties are in foreclosure an average of 400 days, up from 151 days four years ago, according to foreclosure-data firm RealtyTrac Inc.Go to Resource
Every once in awhile, after being fed up with complaints about unruly teenager behavior, a board jokingly asks me “can we exclude teenagers from the community?” They’re often surprised when I answer yes, the Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 (“HOPA”) allows communities to restrict its housing to persons who are 55Go to Resource