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What If Your HOA Can’t Pass Necessary Amendments?

What happens if you really, truly, positively need to amend your HOA governing documents, but your owners are so apathetic you can’t get the supermajority your governing documents require? Can you go to court to get a judge to amend your governing documents? Here, we explain whether that’s possible and, if not, what you can do if you’re stuck in…

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Upstairs, Downstairs:

Strategies for Dealing with Noise Disputes

Noise disputes among owners can be one of the most troublesome problems community associations and their managers face. Not only can they be expensive to resolve, they can cause community unrest and bad feelings. However, if a community association acts quickly and assertively, it may be able to diffuse the dispute, or at least keep the association out of court.

Noise issues often involve a downstairs owner’s complaints of noise coming from the unit above. This frequently involves floor coverings, or the lack of them. The typical dispute has a common set of facts. An upstairs unit owner decides to upgrade by removing existing carpeting and installing hardwood or some other hard-surface flooring in its place. This upgrade occurs without application or notice to the architectural control committee. The first time the board becomes aware of the problem is when a complaint is made by the owner of the unit below. The usual complaints include increased noise from the upper unit-walking, voices, music, or television sounds.

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Cutting Corners

Trying to save money?  Beware of hiring unlicensed contractors.  They could be more expensive than you think.

A West Virginia man probably never thought he could be held liable for more than $1 million when he hired an electrician to replace a circuit breaker in his mother’s house. 

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