Yes. This is usually a last resort, but it is possible.
Yes.Read your governing documents to remind yourself of your legal obligations as a condominium owner.As well, you can read there the steps that an association must follow in order to foreclose on your unit, for example, to satisfy the debt you may owe for unpaid assessments.
First, the conodminium association placed the lien, the management company just did the paperwork. A lien is placed on your condo to make sure you can't sell it without the back debts being paid. It is done to protect the association. This is usually done when assessments aren't paid on time. If you have fallen behind on your payments, then the association can withhold certain services, possibly even turning off utilities (depending on your documents and state law), but can't lock you out of your home. They can, however, foreclose on your unit if assessments continue to go unpaid.
This sounds like a situation for the police.
Your governing documents will give you the answer you want. Typically, the board files a lien against the owner's title for unpaid assessments with the local court. As a last resort, the association may foreclose on the unit and sell it, to pay the owed debts.
By filing liens against the owner(s) of the unit. If the liens go unpaid, the association can foreclose on the unit and sell it in order to satisfy the liens.More DetailForeclosing a unit to pay any monies owed to the association is usually a last step in a process that begins with the association notifying the owner(s) that monies are owed.Owner(s) ignore these initial notices at their peril.
If banks and condominium associations in Ohio operate as they do in most states, you will potentially lose title your unit. The bank can foreclose on an unpaid mortgage, and your condominium association may have the same rights for non-payment of your assessments. At some point, if you continue to live in the unit, you will be evicted.
Read the governing documents; look in the index under Assessments. Then read about the process for notifying the owner of a delinquency, the owner's right of appeal or petition, and other steps that may be required in advance of foreclosure.In any case, best practices dictate that you work with an attorney to collect the amounts owed and if unpaid, ultimately foreclose on the unit to satisfy the debt.
The condo association may file a lien against your condo unit. If you still don't pay the dues you owe, the condo association may sue you to foreclose on your condo.I highly recommend working out a payment plan with the association, if possible.When you don't pay your assessments, essentially you ask your neighbors to pay your bills.
SBA loans are vetted for use by small business. The association may be a small business, but the purpose of the loan should be to expand and grow the business, which is not a goal of an association in a common interest community. If the association needs money and wants to take out a loan, there are banks that will loan money to associations, based on the association's ability to collect assessments from owners. Best practices dictate that the board sit down with a banker to discuss loan options.
You can find your answer by calling the condominium or its association management company.
Read your governing documents to determine what is owned by individual owners and what is owned by the association.
Usually the governing documents for a condominium association detail the level to which a unit owner must maintain the interior of a unit. The board may enforce the covenants of the community by sending a notice to a condominium owner whose upkeep of his or her unit is in violation with the governing documents.