Maintenance The charged expenses cover the costs of maintenance and repairs for common areas. They can include lawn care, landscaping, snow removal, cleaning, pest control, and other costs. For example, maintenance fees will be for hallways and other shared areas in condos. These expenses ensure ...
The boards that direct co-ops, condominiums, and HOAs across the country are made up of volunteers who donate time to help govern their communities. Among their duties is selecting vendors to provide goods or services for those communities—everything from lawn care to roof repair; surveillance ...
They sued the association for a $2,212 special assessment they were charged for lawn care. The lawsuit went on for almost 11 years and finally settled in the homeowners’ favor. Winning cost the homeowners $222,000 in legal fees – most of which the HOA was forced to reimburse. This is...
The bill enacts a new section of the Community Association Act,Utah Code Section 57-8a-231. Finally, an association may not require a lot owner to have lawn in an area that’s less than eight feet wide and may not restrict the conversion of a “grass park strip” to water-efficient la...
“If the vendor is uninsured, even if he provided a fraudulent certificate, the association becomes the insurer.”To offset this risk, condos can get something called zero employee workers’ compensation, which acknowledges that the association may not have any full-time lawn care or snow removal...
Homeowners will be expected to maintain a certain standard of their homes. This will include outside spaces like the lawn, driveway, and the house itself. There could be restrictions on what you can do to your home and the color you can paint it. ...
Maintenance fees are part of condo life, and they actually make a lot of sense. Just like an individual homeowner has to pay for expenses beyond a mortgage (both day-to-day ones like lawn care, and long-term examples like driveway repair), condo owners have to pay for their share of ...
easy to forget when you have to renew your contracts with them. That’s why attorney David Rosenberg of Marcus Rosenberg & Diamond LLP in New York recommends that you “calendar,” or enter onto your schedule, when the renewal of a contract is coming up so it can be reviewed with care....