J.W. from Fairfield County writes: Dear Mister Condo, My association held a special unit owners meeting to vote on removing a board member. After the petitioner gave the rationale for wanting the board member removed, there were comments from individual owners either in support of the removal or not. Do these comments have to be…
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Law to Limit the Amount of Condo Common Fee Increases?
V.C. from Hartford County writes: Dear Mister Condo, Does Connecticut have a law that regulates how high HOA fees can be increased in one year? The HOA fees were raised 15% for 2015 with the promise that fees would not increase again for 3 years. Then an ‘adjustment’ was made from what the association claims…
Condo Association Governance Review Questions
M.F. from California writes: Dear Mister Condo, When we moved into our condo in November 2011, of course, we received the CC&Rs (master that applied to all 1000+ homeowners in the HOA) and the separate CC&Rs that applied to the condo SBA (special benefit area of almost 200 condos). We were told that condo homeowners…
Question of Leaking Condo Basement Responsibility
T.M. from Hartford County writes: Dear Mister Condo, One of our residents has lived in his unit for approximately 2 years. The unit is 8 years old. Within the last 6 months, the owner has had an issue with roughly an inch of water in the basement. He never had an issue before that. Then,…