September 28, 2009

How about email notice?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Joe @ 7:35 am

Recently a client developer told me that he spend an enormous amount of time and money mailing out notices of the annual meeting of unit owners, especially since the documents said that these notices had to be sent “certified mail”.  This caused me to wonder whether there was an easier way.

It turns out that the simple matter of giving notice is in fact not so easy; the Maine Condominium Act mentions that notice of an annual meeting of unit owners is given by U.S. mail.

There is a way to legally give lots of such notices by email.  It requires a little up front work, but the payoff is enormous.

Got your attention?

Email me at joe@mainecondo.com.  By the way, my answers to this one are not free.   You will have to pay for it (I need to eat too).

Tit for Tat

Filed under: Questions from Bloggers — Joe @ 7:21 am

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 a case?

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.    The flip side of this coin is that a condo owner has an independent duty to pay condo fees, even if the association doesn’t cut the lawn around the condo unit….

September 27, 2009

Condo Forum in Portland attracts 70

Filed under: In the news — Joe @ 3:47 pm

The Community Associations Institute hosted its third annual forum for condominium association directors on September 12, 2009, at the Clarion Hotel in Portland.   The forum featured programs on conduct of meetings of the board of directors, with actual condominium directors role playing a meeting of the board.  The forum then heard from James O’Donnell of Dirigo Management Company about association budgeting and reserves, and Joseph Carleton about rules and rule enforcement.   Also in attendance were about a dozen vendors of condominium related services.

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