It comes up all the time. A resident wants to attend and participate at a board meeting or wants to serve on the board of directors. That resident may be a tenant or the significant other of an actual owner of that property, or perhaps the beneficiary of a trust…
To foreclose or not foreclose, that seems to be the question that many association board members and managers are asking themselves these days. There is no question that the sub-prime meltdown/crisis has increased the number of delinquent homeowners. Data Quick Information Services reports that in the first three months of…
Although the FCC regulations which allow a owner to install a satelite dish on their property has been the law for several years now, it is still widely misunderstood. The attached PDF story from the Ventura County Star shows just how misunderstood this law is. A owner at a condo…
Calaveras Enterprise – April 13, 2005 Copperopolis couple get their house back By Vanessa Turner Tom and Anita Radcliff got the deed to their house back and the Copper Cove couple is ready to get on with their lives. The Radcliffs get to keep their home and have received money…
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BILL BANNING FORECLOSURES ON SMALL DEBTS ADVANCES By JIM WASSERMAN Associated Press SACRAMENTO – A bill proposing to ban home foreclosures as a tool to collect small debts in private communities easily cleared a key Senate hurdle Tuesday, beginning a journey that could eventually collide with the veto pen of…
This may be the Easter season, but it’s hardly the best of times for bunny rabbits at one south Orange County homeowners association. The Mission Viejo City Council has given permission for one gated community to have rabbits shot on sight. Many residents in the Casta del Sol HOA retirement…
California Senator Denise Moreno Ducheny (who represents parts of San Diego and Riverside Counties and all of Imperial County) recently unveiled a proposal, similar to one she offered last year, the veru same one that was vetoed by the Governor as being overly broad, claiming that it is “aimed at…
Prepared by Sandra L. Gottlieb, Esq. SwedelsonGottlieb In the mid-90’s, The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) established rules known as the Over the Air Reception Devices, known by the acronym OTARD, which preempts provisions in many governing documents that require an owner to obtain approval before installing a satellite dish. The…
I noticed this article in a local paper. Casa Gateway had been a client several years ago. Does not appear that they are working with an attorney. Not often that such a dispute ends up in the newspaper. David Swedelson Casa Gateway Residents Organize to Halt Sale of Valuable Easement…