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If you live in a Chandler homeowners’ association community and want to learn more about how an HOA operates, next month is your chance, according to a news release.  The City of Chandler’s HOA Academy is back for a three-session spring series in April. The academy classes are taught by people from Mulcahy Law Firm, […]

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A group of Beaverton homeowners, facing thousands of dollars in fines from their neighborhood’s HOA board, tried to remove their board president from his position — only for the board to change the neighborhood’s bylaws the very next day, making it ‘essentially impossible’ to be removed from power.     Read the article…………………………….

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Monday, March 18, might live in lore as the night the lights went out along two sections of Rancho Vistoso Boulevard in Oro Valley.  The Vistoso Community Association turned off the 226 streetlights it owns and operates along the major roadway. It wants residents to express whether they’re fine with being in the dark, or […]

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Police are searching for two crooks who broke into community mailboxes in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood; surveillance video captured the criminals in action.  It happened around noon on Wednesday at the Villagio in the Grove condominium building, at 2740 SW 28th Terrace.     Read the article…………………………….

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Condo owners are facing soaring insurance premiums as companies across the country cancel coverage due to growing risks from climate change. That was the topic of a recent town hall meeting on O?ahu hosted by state lawmakers whose districts largely comprise condo dwellers.   Read the article…………………………….

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A fire ravaged through a condo building in Dutchess County Tuesday leaving several families without a home.  Several neighboring fire departments responded to the blaze, including from the City of Newburgh across the Hudson River. It took them more than an hour to put the fire out.     Read the article…………………………….

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A condo owner in Las Vegas says a chunk of the ceiling in his unit collapsed during last week’s rain, and he blames the building’s homeowner’s association for failing to repair the roof that was damaged weeks before. “Water was just like pouring down, and then it got progressively worse. As you can see, like […]

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Leaders of a Washington homeowners association called on the city to take over maintenance of private streets in their neighborhood and raised questions about how the current arrangement, under which the HOA is responsible for maintenance, came to be in the first place.   Read the article…………………………….

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A Mooresville man risks getting fined $100 a day from his homeowners association for his backyard lights. It’s something he said has not been a problem, so he reached out to WCNC Charlotte hoping to get answers.   Read the article…………………………….

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Residents at a northeast Miami-Dade condo community are concerned after the county’s Unsafe Structures Unit declared the buildings “unsafe” for failing its 50-year recertification.  Vanessa Ortiz, a single mother of two, says she is moving out of the Jade Winds community because the conditions are too much for her to handle.    Read the article…………………………….

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A real estate investor is one step closer to purchasing Metairie Towers.  Darren Aschaffenburg confirmed to WDSU that an owner-seller vote is underway, and he will need two-thirds of a vote to ratify his bid.    Read the article…………………………….

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A Quinton community’s appeal for funding to repair an aging and at-risk dam that contains Kent Lake has failed to move New Kent County’s Board of Supervisors.  Woodhaven Shores residents packed the March 11 Board of Supervisors meeting to appeal for financial help to bolster a bid for grant funding. The community fronts onto Kent […]

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We first told you about these condos on a street off San Felipe last December. The condo owners asked that we not publish their address.  They say for them Spring Break is just another nightmare.   Read the article…………………………….

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In light of his recent guilty plea to federal charges of embezzling, longtime Des Peres Alderman John E. Pound has withdrawn from the April 2 election.  Pound, 80, pleaded guilty on March 7 in St. Louis federal court to three counts of wire fraud over a period of 14 years for embezzling more than $200,000 […]

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The governing body of the four lakes and dams in Midland and Gladwin counties is hoping a court will expedite an appeal filed by a homeowners association.  Last month, the Heron Cove Association, formed to protest a special assessment by the Four Lakes Task Force to repair and reconstruct the Edenville, Secord, Smallwood and Sanford […]

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When Allstate’s Florida unit, Castle Key Indemnity Co., entered the surging condominium insurance market in 2020, it looked like it had made a smart bet: Within two years, the carrier had added no fewer than 123,000 policies.  Then came reinsurance price increases and $56 million in hurricane losses.    Read the article…………………………….

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Nickey Crowley says for the last 20 years, he’s flown a gay pride flag outside his home in Holly Park with no issue.  Then in September of last year, he received a violation saying that flag did not comply with the rules set out by the homeowners association.  “Why now, is my pride flag an […]

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Residents in a downtown Denver condominium say the installation of a bicycle lane is causing safety issues for the people living there.  This past August, the city installed a bicycle lane outside of Windsor Condominiums along Larimer Street.  But residents call it a hazard every time they step out their front doorstep.   Read the article…………………………….

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Village officials said Friday night they are monitoring a failure of at least one post-tension cable that snapped at the Emerald Bay condominium Friday that sent chunks of concrete flying in the luxury condominium’s garage. More than a dozen parking spaces were closed off with yellow caution tape and holes could be seen in the […]

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Scottsdale House board members wish they had been more attentive a few years ago.  After failing to do a background check on a twice-sued manager who ran the HOA for years, the board started discovering money was disappearing from funds targeted for repairs and upgrades.  The deeper into the books they dug, board members found […]

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