Condominium associations are not usually in the business of screening buyers. If you believe that you have been denied the ability to purchase a condominium unit, contact a civil-rights savvy attorney to help you make the purchase you want.
No, a condo association cannot deny compliance with building code. Building codes are legal requirements that must be followed to ensure safety, health, and general welfare of residents. The condo association may have some flexibility in how they enforce the code, but they cannot outright refuse to comply with it.
Read your governing documents to determine what is owned by individual owners and what is owned by the association.
Yes, in a word. If your water is paid for by the assessments you promised to pay when you purchased your unit, and you do not pay your assessments, then the association can deny you access to services, including water, for which you refuse to pay. Read your governing documents to more fully understand both your responsibility to pay assessments, and the association's duty to collect them, and the lengths to which the association can go to satisfy your debt.
Read your governing documents to determine which actions your association can take in order to collect assessments that you owe and do not pay. As well, it's reasonable, for example, that if you don't pay your monthly assessments, and the association pays your electric bill from assessments that are collected, that they can deny electric service to you, since you aren't paying for it.
If you are an owner, you may have the power to deny a quit claim deed. The association board is not in the business of authorizing real estate transactions in the community. A common-interest-community-savvy attorney can answer your question specifically, with more detail.
Your attorney can help you answer this question, since it requires a legal answer.
Yes.You can request the status of the association from the Secretary of State where the association is located.
Absolutely, yes. The association may be incorporated as a profit, not for profit, or an unincorporated association.
Depending on where you live -- state laws may vary -- there may be an association, but it has been formed by the property developer. The developer may be the only officer in the association.You can check with the Secretary of State under the formal name of the association, to discover the names of its officers.
State Farm, Progressive and Geico are some well known companies that offer condo association insurance policies. There are local and lesser known companies such as Melendez Insurance that offer condo association insurance policies also.
Only if the Condo Association allows it. It could otherwise fine you.
Yes.