Discrimination Resources

In the classic film The Breakfast Club aspiring principal Richard Vernon watches over a brain, a basket case, an athlete, a princess, and a criminal, during a Saturday detention.  Does this sound like your Board?  The day at Shermer High School is an entertaining one, with this “Breakfast Club” of rapscallions being largely misunderstood byGo to Resource

It’s a bright spring morning and the market is beginning to defrost from its long winter chill. Spring purchasers are out, including Polly Purchaser who is looking to move her family to a new community. While looking at the community, Polly asks a board member what the community is like. The Board member responds byGo to Resource

Every profession has its war stories.  For community associations, these stories increasingly involve owners who, because of age, emotional problems, or both, pose a threat to themselves and to others in the community. Like the woman with Alzheimer’s, who wandered regularly from her complex when her son, with whom she lived, was traveling on business. Go to Resource

According to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a violation of the Fair Housing Act does not occur until a requested accommodation is first refused.  In a recent case from Hawaii, a homeowner was granted temporary permission to keep a companion pet while the Board of Directors investigated the request.  According to the court theGo to Resource