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The Third Annual New England Condo Expo
Launched just three years ago, New England Condominium’s annual Condo Expo has already become a fixture on the business calendar of vendors, service providers, board members, building staff members and residents throughout the region. Each year, they converge under one roof to learn about new products and technologies, exchange information, network and improve how their buildings and associations are run.
Read MoreNo Time Like the Precedent
The New England Condo Expo
They came to learn, to network, and to discover new solutions for managing their
community associations. And they went home with stacks of information and minds
brimming with ideas.
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Premier Condo Expo Attracts Throngs of Decision-Makers
The premier New England Condo Expo drew visitors from across the region to the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston for a full day of networking, seminars –and a chance to win a host of prizes. Read More
Keeping on Their Toes
If a unit owner has trouble making mortgage payments, can non-payment of condo fees be far behind? In what feels almost like a “tough love” scenario, experts are encouraging condo boards to be proactive about collecting late fees, even though New England communities have not been hit as hard as those in other parts of the country. Read More
New England 2011 Legislative Roundup
Many of the issues contained within legislation in the 2011 session concern governance and membership rights during a time of economic stringency. They range from Maine’s regulation updates, and measures to alleviate foreclosure impacts, to efforts in Connecticut and Massachusetts to confine differences between residents and board associations to the condominium forum, rather than add government regulations.
Read MoreA Burning Issue
The late 1990s saw a surge of nationwide smoking restrictions put into effect.
State by state, smoking ban legislation was proposed, put to a vote and passed
into law. No public dwelling seemed untouched, including the workplace, shops,
theaters, favorite restaurants and bars.
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Admittance Denied
For many prospective co-op shareholders, finding the living space of their dreams is only half the goal. The other half involves making the cut before the co-op’s admittance committee, meeting all of the seemingly mysterious criteria that can mean the difference between a new home and a rejection letter. Read More
Talking Trash
They pay the same property taxes, and pull electricity from the same wires; their residents go to the same schools and libraries, and vote for the same municipal officials. Yet there is one marked difference between many condominiums and their single-family house neighbors: trash. In towns and cities where the governments provide free trash pickup to single-family houses, condominiums are often required to foot the bill for the same service.Although this is certainly not a new issue, sharply rising costs for trash removal—and rising property taxes—are prompting condominium associations to re-examine the fairness of the situation. Following a number of successful campaigns across the country, many condominium residents throughout New England have organized and are pressing the local governments with renewed vigor for equality in municipal services. Read More
Foreclosure Sales Clarified
A hallmark of community associations is their ability to enforce nonpayment of assessments by resorting to the remedy of foreclosure—long recognized in the law as a forfeiture of property. Over time, courts and legislatures have struggled to balance the rights of the parties to ensure that the results of the foreclosure serve society's greater needs Read More
