Habitat Legal Survey 2009 - Insurance: debating a "known condition" when filing a claim, technicalities of filing notice of a lawsuit, insurance restrictions on placing claims
Habitat Legal Survey 2009 - Insurance: debating a "known condition" when filing a claim, technicalities of filing notice of a lawsuit, insurance restrictions on placing claims
Habitat Legal Survey 2009 - Privacy: personal privacy versus public welfare, incomplete background information, accommodating celebrity homeowners and the ensuing costs
Habitat Legal Survey 2009 - Rules: bylaw revisions, collecting arrears, dealing with shareholder hardships, and dealing with pet regulations
Habitat Legal Survey 2009 - Sponsors: unit owner rights with a sponsor-controlled board, new buildings with structural and financial flaws, responsibilities of a sponsor board
Habitat Legal Survey 2009 - Staff: terminating employees
It can’t happen here? Recent corruption concerns have boards confronting questions about the integrity of their managers.
A managing agent who could no longer turn a blind eye to questionable management practices at his firm.
Selling improvements used to be simple, but now recession-era worries mean boards have to work harder at marketing.
When it comes to access for the disabled, boards must weigh their duties as board members against their feelings as human beings.
Beware: If your building doesn’t have a fidelity bond, that could give the bank a license to kill a sale.