{"id":33,"date":"2009-09-28T07:21:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainecondo.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-09-28T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:36:48","slug":"tit-for-tat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mainecondo.com\/blog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Tit for Tat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from a board member:<\/p>\n

If a condo owner is not paying his\/her condo fee, can the Board “hold off” on cutting the lawn around his\/her condo and refuse to trim the shrubs and not do “winter clean up” in the Spring, for example, until they resume paying. What can the Board do in such a case?<\/p>\n

No, the Board has an independent duty to maintain the common areas and besides, the association has plenty of ways to collect the condo fees, with interest.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The flip side of this coin is that a condo owner has an independent duty to pay condo fees, even if the association doesn\u2019t cut the lawn around the condo unit\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question from a board member: If a condo owner is not paying his\/her condo fee, can the Board “hold off” on cutting the lawn around his\/her condo and refuse to trim the shrubs and not do “winter clean up” in the Spring, for example, until they resume paying. What can the Board do in such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-from-bloggers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t