Blog post by David Swedelson, Partner, SwedelsonGottlieb As we all know, the Great Recession has changed the way we live and do business. Getting a home loan is not easy these days, and the federal government is instituting some pretty major changes to the mortgage finance system. This is complicated…
Posted by David Swedelson, Partner, SwedelsonGottlieb Community Associations Institute (CAI) is petitioning Congress to host oversight hearings examining the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and its management of the FHA condominium insurance program. If your condominium association has applied for FHA approval, CAI would like you to take a short survey.…
Blog Post by Sandra Gottlieb and David Swedelson from a CAI Alert When it comes to the FHA and its lending guidelines, describing their guidelines as a moving target would not be an exaggeration. If you asked us two days ago regarding the FHA’s stance on rental percentages language in…
Some California community associations charge transfer fees. The Federal Housing Finance Agency was proposing a ban on such fees, and they have now backed off this proposal. Community Associations Institute (CAI) was very much involved in addressing the proposed ban. Now the Federal Housing Finance Agency says they will exempt…
Here at SwedelsonGottlieb, we’ve dealt with or heard a lot of interesting situations. Sometimes, we think we must have seen just about everything there is to see. But a recent article about squatters at an a home in a Newport Beach HOA made us laugh out loud. The squatters had…
The Orange County Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) will be holding a luncheon on January 11, 2011 at the Irvine Mariott, entitled “Professional Behavior Affects Everyone”. CAI encourages you to “come hear the leading professionals in our industry discuss ethical and professional issues relevant to our industry. Our…
Mark your calendars, because just around the corner from the holidays is the California Association of Community Managers’ (CACM) Southern California Law Seminar on January 21, 2011, from 8 am to 5 pm at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. CACM’s annual event is tailored to “community management professionals to have…
By Mark Petrie, Legal Assistant at SwedelsonGottlieb Shakespeare’s Hamlet complains about the “law’s delay” as part of the reason he considers suicide. If he had lived today and tried to revive a California corporation’s suspended status with the Secretary of State, his decision would have been easy. Extended delays are…
SwedelsonGottlieb Senior Partner Sandra Gottlieb and Karen Conlon, President and CEO of the California Association of Community Managers (CACM) have written an article providing community association boards of directors with practical tools designed to identify and implement ethical value systems for their association board members. These tools will enable board…
“Most successful businesses have embraced the concept of strategic planning, and the results attained drive the direction, resources, and decisions made in the daily course of doing business. It guides the leadership and unites the employees and partners through common goals and objectives.” This is the introduction to an article…