Articles Tagged with condominium law

1) Do you know what your Condo Management Association is up to?

2) Maybe you are Condo Management and want to know what you should be doing.

3) Maybe you’re thinking about buying a condo and want to hear about HOA rights and responsibilities.

Smart people love Forums and Meetings and Seminars! Here is a condo training opportunity just for you:

I’ve blogged a lot about condo law for a reason. (See here and here.) Condo homeownership is fairly new to Oregon, and a lot of Oregon lawyers, and there is an awful lot of Feeling your Way going on for condo buyers, sellers, boards, lenders, owners, management companies, and lawyers.

An Oregonian article by Jeff Manning on Sunday, 1/6/08, “If these walls could talk, they would quarrel,” was particularly good, though it may put you off condo-ownership completely rather than simply alerting you to the pitfalls. Condo ownership may be just what you need and want, but it’s good to know the risks (so says the public law librarian who hears a lot about the risks, the aggravations, and the lawsuits).

Excerpt from the article, but do read the whole thing, especially if you’re thinking about buying a condo (and read a whole lot more on the subject too):

“From a nothin’ to a somthin'” (and one day I’ll tell you where that quote comes from – and laugh and laugh you will). I used to think we had almost nothing on Condo law in Oregon and now we have a bounty of resources. If you put the word “condo” in the search box at the top of this blog you will see links to most or even all, and any future condo postings I might make. I now have two more resources to add to this collection:

1) The Official HOA Handbook, A. Richard Vial, editor, (Northwest HOA Law Center, 2003)

2) Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook (use the index to find some very useful information on HOAs)